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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Metonism.
(b) Acronymy.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Polylynism.

2. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Artist's Responsibility.
(d) The Author in Search of an Audience.

3. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Andrey Rublev.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Kenji Mizoguchi.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Boring.
(c) Slow.
(d) Elitist.

5. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

2. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

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

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

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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