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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Acronymy.
(c) Polylynism.
(d) Metonism.

2. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Novosibirsk.

3. 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?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Truth.

4. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Yuri Nikulin.

5. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) The Killer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

2. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

4. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

5. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

(see the answer key)

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