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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?
(a) Evgeny Zharikov.
(b) Nikolai Grinko.
(c) Margarita Terekhova.
(d) Valentin Zubkov.

2. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?
(a) Marx.
(b) Kurosawa.
(c) Gogol.
(d) Lenin.

3. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) The Responsibility of the Artist.
(b) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(c) The Beginning.
(d) Imprinted Time.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Evil.
(b) Meaning of existence.
(c) Mankind.
(d) God.

5. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?
(a) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(b) Beryózovsky.
(c) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(d) Pasternak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

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

3. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?

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

5. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

(see the answer key)

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