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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who starred in the film, Persona?
(a) Elizabeth Poin.
(b) Sara Martinez.
(c) Maria A'delair.
(d) Liv Ullmann.

2. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?
(a) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Alexander Herzen.
(d) Alexander Grin.

3. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

4. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?
(a) Juini.
(b) Bishko.
(c) Illkiu.
(d) Basho.

5. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."
(a) Public satisfaction.
(b) Wall Street.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

2. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?

3. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?

4. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?

5. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

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