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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Tolstoy.

3. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
(a) Bresson.
(b) Cousteau.
(c) Bergman.
(d) Bruneil.

4. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Water.
(c) Wine.
(d) Coca-Cola.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

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

3. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?

4. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

5. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?

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