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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 VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Meanings.
(b) Themes.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Plots.

2. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) For the people.

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

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

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

6. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?
(a) Neo-symbolism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Realism.

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

8. 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) Doestoyevsky.
(c) Marx.
(d) Pushkin.

9. 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.

10. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Sacrifice.

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

12. The film, Stalker, was based loosely on what novel?
(a) Roadside Picnic.
(b) The Last Train.
(c) Last Night at Moscow.
(d) True Blood.

13. 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) River.
(c) Little boy.
(d) Cock.

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

15. 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) Industry.
(b) Public satisfaction.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Wall Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of War and Peace?

2. Who wrote the book Images?

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?

4. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

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

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