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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) God.
(b) Truth.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Freedom.

2. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?
(a) Valentin Zubkov.
(b) Nikolai Grinko.
(c) Evgeny Zharikov.
(d) Margarita Terekhova.

3. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) The Film Image.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) After Nostalgia.

4. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Truth.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Acronymy.
(b) Metonism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Polylynism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

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

3. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

4. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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