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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Rublyov.
(b) Chapayev.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Marx.

2. 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) God.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Truth.
(d) Freedom.

3. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Art.
(b) Love.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Beauty.

4. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1959.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What French film director directed, L'Argent?

2. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?

3. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

(see the answer key)

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