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

2. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Stalker.

3. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Expansive.
(b) Determined.
(c) Communicative.
(d) Composite.

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

5. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
(a) Meisner.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Stanislavsky.

Short Answer 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")?

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

3. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

4. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

5. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

(see the answer key)

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