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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Marx.
(d) Doestoyevsky.

2. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Marx.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Pasternak.

3. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Michail Carwovsky.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Alexander Grin.

4. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?
(a) Arseniy Alexandrovich Tarkovsky.
(b) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(c) Alexander Gorky.
(d) Alexander Gordon.

5. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) Sameul Beckett.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?

2. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?

3. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

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

5. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

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