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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?
(a) France.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

2. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Beauty.
(b) God.
(c) Faith.
(d) Truth.

3. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(d) Pushkin.

4. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Carpaccio.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Humphries.

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(b) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(c) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(d) I Cor 15, 1-4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?

2. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?

3. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

4. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?

5. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

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