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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Trigger.

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

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

4. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Marx.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

5. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Alexander Dovzhenko.

Short Answer Questions

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

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"?

3. When was the film, Mirror, released?

4. 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?

5. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?

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