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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) Imprinted Time.
(b) The Responsibility of the Artist.
(c) The Beginning.
(d) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.

4. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1968
(c) 1975.
(d) 1967.

5. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Ivanov.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Kapiyev.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

2. 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")?

3. What French film director directed, L'Argent?

4. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?

5. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

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