1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Salvation.
(d) God.

2. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Art.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Point of view.
(b) Morals.
(c) Understanding and love.
(d) Beliefs.

4. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Karishnakov.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

3. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

4. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

5. When was Tarkovsky born?

(see the answer key)

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