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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 freedom.
(c) Inner strength.
(d) Inner courage.

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

8. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

9. What genre of art does Tarkovsky claim is, The Sacrifice?
(a) Parable.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Noir.
(d) Satire.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. Who is the author of War and Peace?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Doestoyevsky.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?

3. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?

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

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

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