1. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?
(a) Justification.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Moralizing.
(d) Ideology.

2. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?
(a) Oleg Yankovsky.
(b) Andrei Gorchakov.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Vassily Zhukovsky.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Beauty.
(b) Faith.
(c) Truth.
(d) God.

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) Cock.
(b) Mother.
(c) River.
(d) Little boy.

5. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Audrey Rublyov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

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

3. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

4. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

(see the answer key)

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