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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Faith.
(b) Beauty.
(c) God.
(d) Truth.

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

3. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Trigger.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Retreat.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Plots.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Themes.
(d) Meanings.

5. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
(a) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(b) Beryózovsky.
(c) Andrei Gorchakov.
(d) Vassily Zhukovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

2. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

3. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

4. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?

5. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?

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