1. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?
(a) Bishko.
(b) Illkiu.
(c) Basho.
(d) Juini.

2. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
(a) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(b) Beryózovsky.
(c) Andrei Gorchakov.
(d) Vyacheslav Ivanov.

3. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?
(a) Modern art.
(b) Mankind.
(c) The Realistic Movement.
(d) Dadaism.

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. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Man.
(b) Literature.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

2. What is the title of Chapter V?

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

4. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?

5. When was the film, Mirror, released?

(see the answer key)

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