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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Audrey Rublyov.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Stalker.

2. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Smoktunovsky.
(b) Bogomolov.
(c) Tarkovsky.
(d) Kuleshov.

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

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")?
(a) Polylynism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Acronymy.
(d) Metonism.

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) Ovid.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Aristophanes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

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

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

5. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?

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