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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) James Joyce.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

2. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Proust.
(b) Millardeaux.
(c) LaSalle.
(d) Bordeaux.

3. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

4. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) After Nostalgia.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Film Image.
(d) The Sacrifice.

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) For the people.
(d) Truthful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?

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

3. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?

4. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?

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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