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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Salieri.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Bach.

2. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?
(a) Justification.
(b) Ideology.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Moralizing.

3. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1975.

4. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Nikolai Grinko.
(c) Arseny Tarkovsky.
(d) Evgeny Zharikov.

5. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Alexander Mann.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

2. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

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

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

5. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

(see the answer key)

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