1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Slow.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Boring.

2. 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) Yuri Nikulin.
(d) Alexander Blok.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) Established theory.
(b) What the cinema was capable of.
(c) Everything.
(d) Government.

4. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Paul Valéry.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

5. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Humphries.
(b) Carpaccio.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Da Vinci.

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. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

3. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?

4. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?

(see the answer key)

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