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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?
(a) Bromine.
(b) Warrior.
(c) Shogun.
(d) Samurai.

2. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?
(a) Nikolai Grinko.
(b) Valentin Zubkov.
(c) Evgeny Zharikov.
(d) Margarita Terekhova.

3. What artist claimed "no acclaim could please me more than to have ordinary working people wanting to hang my lithographs in their rooms or their workshops"?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Vincent Van Gogh.
(d) Picasso.

4. What filming technique did Tarkovsky implement more in The Sacrifice than in any of his other films?
(a) The dolly shot.
(b) The fade in.
(c) The fade out.
(d) The long shot.

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

6. 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."
(a) Wall Street.
(b) Public satisfaction.
(c) Industry.
(d) Entertainment.

7. 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) Water.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Coca-Cola.
(d) Wine.

8. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter IX that he got the idea for The Sacrifice long before what film?
(a) Stalker.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Killer.
(d) Nostalgia.

9. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?
(a) Ingmar Bergman.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Karl Marx.

10. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?
(a) Prstost.
(b) Prosteete.
(c) Regretsy.
(d) Plrotoft.

11. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
(a) Magnum vox.
(b) Vox magnum.
(c) Vox populii.
(d) Mons populii.

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

13. Who played the role of Alexander in The Sacrifice?
(a) Erland Josephson.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.

14. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?
(a) Audrey Rublyov.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Mirror.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?

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

3. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?

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

5. When was the film, Mirror, released?

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