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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?
(a) Andrei Gorchakov.
(b) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(c) Oleg Yankovsky.
(d) Vassily Zhukovsky.

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

5. 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) Demiurge.
(c) Saint.
(d) Martyr.

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

7. 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.

8. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) The Sacrifice.

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

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

11. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?
(a) Marx.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Eisenstein.

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

13. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Maria.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Eugenia.

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

15. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) Creative.
(b) Free.
(c) True.
(d) Assertive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?

2. Who wrote the book Images?

3. What is the title of Chapter VII?

4. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

5. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?

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