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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 novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Karishnakov.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

2. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

3. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Homer.

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

5. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Alexander Marsh.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?

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

3. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

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

5. 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?

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