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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) William Faulkner.
(b) Alexander Mann.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Evil.
(b) Mankind.
(c) God.
(d) Meaning of existence.

4. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?
(a) Bromine.
(b) Warrior.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Shogun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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

3. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter II?

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