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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) The Film Image.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Sacrifice.

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Marsh.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

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

4. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Marx.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?

2. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

3. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

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