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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
(a) Heerkomer's.
(b) Eisenstein's.
(c) Marx's.
(d) Tolstoy's.

2. Tarkovsky begins Chapter VII by returning to the comparison of cinema to what?
(a) Painting.
(b) Literature.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Sculpting.

3. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?
(a) Witch.
(b) Princess.
(c) Angel.
(d) Vampire.

4. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Doestoyevsky.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Beckett.

5. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Ivanov.
(b) Stavrogin.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Kapiyev.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?

2. 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"?

3. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

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