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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Marx.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Chapayev.
(d) Rublyov.

2. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?
(a) Renoir's.
(b) Picasso's.
(c) Michaelangelo's.
(d) Leonardo Da Vinci's.

3. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?
(a) Water.
(b) Coca-Cola.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Wine.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Governmental control.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Absolute laws.

5. The film, Stalker, was based loosely on what novel?
(a) The Last Train.
(b) Last Night at Moscow.
(c) True Blood.
(d) Roadside Picnic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

2. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

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

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

5. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?

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