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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?
(a) Free.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Lying.
(d) Rich.

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

4. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) Doestoyevsky.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Beckett.

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

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

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

8. What was the first version of The Sacrifice to be titled initially?
(a) The Savior.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Salvation.
(d) The Witch.

9. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?
(a) Re-edits it.
(b) Dwells on it.
(c) Never sees it.
(d) Stops thinking about it.

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

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

12. Tarkovsky points to whose portrait, "A Young Lady With a Juniper", as a masterpiece of art?
(a) Leonardo Da Vinci's.
(b) Renoir's.
(c) Picasso's.
(d) Michaelangelo's.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?

2. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?

3. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?

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

5. Who played the role of Alexander in The Sacrifice?

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