View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Alexander Mann.
(d) Thomas Mann.

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

3. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Sweden.

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

5. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?
(a) Prosteete.
(b) Prstost.
(c) Plrotoft.
(d) Regretsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?

2. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

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

4. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

5. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 171 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample