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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of, Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) A cafe and boulevard.
(b) A monastery.
(c) A military hospital.
(d) A school.

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

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

4. Who played the role of Adelaide in The Sacrifice?
(a) Sarah Moorewood.
(b) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.
(c) Susan Fleetwood.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) After Nostalgia.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Mirror.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Pronounced.
(c) Immediate.
(d) Heightened.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the film, Mirror, released?

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

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

4. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?

5. 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?

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