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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Coca-Cola.
(c) Water.
(d) Wine.

2. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Sacrifice.

3. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
(a) Heerkomer's.
(b) Eisenstein's.
(c) Marx's.
(d) Tolstoy's.

4. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?
(a) Pavel Florensky.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Sergei Eisenstein.
(d) Andrey Rublyov.

5. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Yuri Nikulin.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Alexander Blok.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

3. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

4. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

5. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

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