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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(b) I Cor 15, 1-4.
(c) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(d) I Cor 10, 1-8.

4. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Trigger.
(d) Retreat.

5. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?
(a) Audrey Rublyov.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Stalker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?

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

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

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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