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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Richard III.
(b) King Henry VI.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King James I.

2. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Art.
(b) Hideousness.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Truth.

3. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Artist's Responsibility.
(d) The Author in Search of an Audience.

4. 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?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Absolute laws.
(c) Governmental control.
(d) Opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

2. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?

3. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?

4. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?

5. What artist claimed "no acclaim could please me more than to have ordinary working people wanting to hang my lithographs in their rooms or their workshops"?

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