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) Wine.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Coca-Cola.
(d) Water.

3. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?
(a) Vampire.
(b) Witch.
(c) Princess.
(d) Angel.

4. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Eugenia.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Maria.

5. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
(a) Vox magnum.
(b) Vox populii.
(c) Mons populii.
(d) Magnum vox.

6. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
(a) Marx.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Tolstoy.

7. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?
(a) Inner courage.
(b) Inner freedom.
(c) Inner strength.
(d) Inner wisdom.

8. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Naturalism.
(c) Neo-symbolism.
(d) Realism.

9. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?
(a) Renoir's.
(b) Picasso's.
(c) Leonardo Da Vinci's.
(d) Michaelangelo's.

10. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) Creative.
(b) Assertive.
(c) True.
(d) Free.

11. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
(a) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(b) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(c) Andrei Gorchakov.
(d) Beryózovsky.

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

13. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?
(a) Never sees it.
(b) Re-edits it.
(c) Stops thinking about it.
(d) Dwells on it.

14. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-promotion.
(b) Self-assertion.
(c) Self-denial.
(d) Self-destruction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter IX, "the more clearly I discerned the stamp of _____ on the face of our planet (irrespective of whether I was observing the West or the East), the more I came up against unhappy people"?

2. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

3. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?

5. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."

(see the answer keys)

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