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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What director's cinematic version of Macbeth is discussed in Chapter V?
(a) Tarkovsky's.
(b) Kurosawa's.
(c) Bergman's.
(d) Brunuel's.

4. Who is the author of War and Peace?
(a) Doestoyevsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Alexander Grin.

5. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Bogomolov.
(b) Smoktunovsky.
(c) Tarkovsky.
(d) Kuleshov.

6. 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) Doestoyevsky.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Pushkin.

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

8. 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) Industry.
(c) Public satisfaction.
(d) Entertainment.

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

10. 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) Rembrandt.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Heerkomer.

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

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

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

14. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?
(a) Saint.
(b) Demiurge.
(c) Martyr.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?

4. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?

5. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?

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