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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?
(a) Meaningful.
(b) Important.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Viable.

2. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Time.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Truth.

3. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Robert Bresson.
(b) Igmar Berman.
(c) Sergei Eisenstein.
(d) Donatas Banionis.

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

5. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?
(a) Bishko.
(b) Juini.
(c) Basho.
(d) Illkiu.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

3. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

4. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?

5. 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?

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