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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) After Nostalgia.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Mirror.

2. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1932.

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

4. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Marx.
(d) Kurosawa.

5. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Stalker.

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. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?

3. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

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

5. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?

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