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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) Doestoyevsky.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Hemingway.

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

3. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?
(a) Alexander Grin.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

4. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) After Nostalgia.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) The Sacrifice.

6. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?
(a) Bach.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Salieri.

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

8. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
(a) Beryózovsky.
(b) Andrei Gorchakov.
(c) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(d) Vyacheslav Ivanov.

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

10. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes, "People cease to feel any need for the beautiful or the spiritual, and consume films like bottles of" what?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Coca-Cola.
(c) Water.
(d) Wine.

11. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?
(a) Renoir's.
(b) Picasso's.
(c) Michaelangelo's.
(d) Leonardo Da Vinci's.

12. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(c) Alexander Kaidanovsky.
(d) Alexander Blok.

13. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) The Film Image.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) The Sacrifice.

14. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?
(a) Andrei Gorchakov.
(b) Oleg Yankovsky.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Vassily Zhukovsky.

15. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."
(a) Demise.
(b) Grave.
(c) Weight.
(d) Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?

2. Who had played the lead in all of Tarkovsky's films prior to The Sacrifice?

3. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."

4. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?

5. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

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