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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Marx.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Doestoyevsky.

2. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
(a) Bresson.
(b) Cousteau.
(c) Bergman.
(d) Bruneil.

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

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) Narcissism.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Godlessness.
(d) Materialism.

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

6. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Nadezhda.
(b) Narrator.
(c) Natalia.
(d) Old Woman.

7. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?
(a) Arseny Tarkovsky.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Nikolai Grinko.
(d) Margarita Terekhova.

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

9. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?
(a) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Alexander Herzen.

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

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

12. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?
(a) Meaningful.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Viable.
(d) Important.

13. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Marx.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?

2. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter IX that he got the idea for The Sacrifice long before what film?

4. Tarkovsky begins Chapter VII by returning to the comparison of cinema to what?

5. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?

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