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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who had played the lead in all of Tarkovsky's films prior to The Sacrifice?
(a) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Erland Josephson.

3. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

4. Who played the role of Adelaide in The Sacrifice?
(a) Susan Fleetwood.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Sarah Moorewood.
(d) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?

2. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

3. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

4. What French film director directed, L'Argent?

5. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."

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