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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 VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Not short.
(b) Impossible to demonstrate.
(c) Not long.
(d) Invisible.

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

3. 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) Demiurge.
(b) God.
(c) Martyr.
(d) Saint.

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

5. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?
(a) Inner courage.
(b) Inner freedom.
(c) Inner strength.
(d) Inner wisdom.

6. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) Mother.
(b) Little boy.
(c) Cock.
(d) River.

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

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

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

10. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
(a) Marx.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Tolstoy.

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

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

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

14. 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) Picasso.
(b) Vincent Van Gogh.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Rembrandt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?

2. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?

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

4. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

5. What director's cinematic version of Macbeth is discussed in Chapter V?

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