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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."
(a) Grave.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Weight.
(d) Demise.

2. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
(a) Tolstoy's.
(b) Marx's.
(c) Eisenstein's.
(d) Heerkomer's.

3. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Alexander Kruschev.
(b) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(c) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(d) Ivan Bondarev.

4. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?
(a) Beryózovsky.
(b) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Pasternak.

5. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Mark Allen White.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?

2. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?

3. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?

4. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

5. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

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