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

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

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

4. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Carpaccio.
(b) Michaelangelo.
(c) Humphries.
(d) Da Vinci.

5. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Film Image.
(d) After Nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?

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

3. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

4. 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"?

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

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