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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?
(a) Boris Godunov.
(b) Mozart and Salieri.
(c) Eugene Onegin.
(d) The Covetous Knight.

3. 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) Picasso.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Eisenstein.

4. 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) Godlessness.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Holiness.

5. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Alexander Mann.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) William Faulkner.

6. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?
(a) Italy.
(b) Sweden.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

7. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) Stalker.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

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

9. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?
(a) Moralizing.
(b) Justification.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Ideology.

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

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

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

13. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?
(a) Never sees it.
(b) Re-edits it.
(c) Stops thinking about it.
(d) Dwells on it.

14. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Self-destruction.
(c) Self-denial.
(d) Self-promotion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?

2. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?

3. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."

4. 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?

5. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?

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