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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Marx.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Tolstoy.

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Alexander Marsh.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

3. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1880.

4. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Proust.
(b) Bordeaux.
(c) LaSalle.
(d) Millardeaux.

5. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?

4. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

5. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?

(see the answer key)

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