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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Andrey Rublev.
(b) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Alexander Blok.

2. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Truth.
(b) God.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Faith.

3. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) The Film Image.

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

5. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?

3. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

4. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

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