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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Karishnakov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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

3. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?
(a) Nikolai Grinko.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Margarita Terekhova.
(d) Arseny Tarkovsky.

4. 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) Stalker.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Audrey Rublyov.

5. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Marx.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

2. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

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

4. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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