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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Cinema.
(c) Art.
(d) Literature.

2. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

3. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Alexander Marsh.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Donovan.

5. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1968
(c) 1967.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

2. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

4. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

5. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?

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