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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) The Realistic Movement.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Modern art.

3. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Art.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Literature.
(d) Man.

4. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Tarkovsky.
(b) Bogomolov.
(c) Kuleshov.
(d) Smoktunovsky.

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

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

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

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

5. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?

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