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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Meanings.
(b) Themes.
(c) Plots.
(d) Heroes.

2. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Old Woman.
(b) Nadezhda.
(c) Narrator.
(d) Natalia.

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) River.
(b) Mother.
(c) Little boy.
(d) Cock.

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

5. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?
(a) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(b) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(c) Beryózovsky.
(d) Pasternak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

2. What is the title of Chapter II?

3. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?

4. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?

5. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?

(see the answer key)

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