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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Truth.
(c) Salvation.
(d) God.

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Themes.
(b) Meanings.
(c) Plots.
(d) Heroes.

3. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1968

4. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?
(a) Naturalism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Neo-symbolism.
(d) Realism.

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1901.

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

3. Who directed the film, Persona?

4. When was Tarkovsky born?

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."

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