View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Stalker.

2. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Marx.

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) For the people.

4. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?
(a) Nikolai Grinko.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Arseny Tarkovsky.
(d) Margarita Terekhova.

5. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
(a) Heerkomer's.
(b) Eisenstein's.
(c) Tolstoy's.
(d) Marx's.

6. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?
(a) France.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

7. What genre of art does Tarkovsky claim is, The Sacrifice?
(a) Satire.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Parable.
(d) Noir.

8. What Chinese concept is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn?
(a) Yin and Yang.
(b) Black and White.
(c) Tao.
(d) Frog and Elephant.

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

10. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Marx.
(d) Doestoyevsky.

11. Who had played the lead in all of Tarkovsky's films prior to The Sacrifice?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Erland Josephson.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.

12. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?
(a) Ishobar.
(b) Alexander.
(c) Natalia.
(d) Ivan.

13. Who wrote the book Images?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

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

15. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?

3. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?

4. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?

5. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 400 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample