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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

2. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Art.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Intuition.

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

4. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?
(a) Heightened.
(b) Pronounced.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Immediate.

5. 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) Millardeaux.
(c) Bordeaux.
(d) LaSalle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?

3. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

4. What director's cinematic version of Macbeth is discussed in Chapter V?

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?

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