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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The film, Stalker, was based loosely on what novel?
(a) True Blood.
(b) Roadside Picnic.
(c) The Last Train.
(d) Last Night at Moscow.

2. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?
(a) Heerkomer.
(b) Eisenstein.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Rembrandt.

3. 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) River.
(c) Mother.
(d) Little boy.

4. Tarkovsky begins Chapter VII by returning to the comparison of cinema to what?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Literature.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpting.

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

6. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Nadezhda.
(b) Old Woman.
(c) Narrator.
(d) Natalia.

7. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter IX, "the more clearly I discerned the stamp of _____ on the face of our planet (irrespective of whether I was observing the West or the East), the more I came up against unhappy people"?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Godlessness.

8. Who played the role of Adelaide in The Sacrifice?
(a) Sarah Moorewood.
(b) Susan Fleetwood.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.

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

10. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Gogol.
(c) Kurosawa.
(d) Marx.

11. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?
(a) Basho.
(b) Bishko.
(c) Juini.
(d) Illkiu.

12. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Author in Search of an Audience.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Beginning.
(d) The Artist's Responsibility.

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

14. Tarkovsky claims to be against structuralist attempts to look at a _________ as a sign of something else.
(a) Frame.
(b) Rain.
(c) Character.
(d) Plot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?

2. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?

3. What was the first version of The Sacrifice to be titled initially?

4. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

5. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?

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