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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 15, 1-4.
(b) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(c) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(d) I Cor 13, 1-16.

2. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?
(a) The Covetous Knight.
(b) Mozart and Salieri.
(c) Eugene Onegin.
(d) Boris Godunov.

3. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Art.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Man.
(d) Literature.

4. What director's cinematic version of Macbeth is discussed in Chapter V?
(a) Bergman's.
(b) Kurosawa's.
(c) Brunuel's.
(d) Tarkovsky's.

5. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Homer.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Donovan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

2. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?

3. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?

4. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

5. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?

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