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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) True.
(b) Assertive.
(c) Creative.
(d) Free.

2. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Karishnakov.
(d) Chekhov.

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

4. 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"?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Vincent Van Gogh.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

5. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Pushkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?

2. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

3. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

4. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

5. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

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