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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?
(a) Witch.
(b) Princess.
(c) Angel.
(d) Vampire.

2. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

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

4. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?
(a) Bromine.
(b) Warrior.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Shogun.

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

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

7. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?
(a) Beryózovsky.
(b) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Pasternak.

8. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?
(a) Arseny Tarkovsky.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Margarita Terekhova.
(d) Nikolai Grinko.

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

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

11. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?
(a) Ishobar.
(b) Alexander.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Natalia.

12. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Spain.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

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

14. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?
(a) Prosteete.
(b) Plrotoft.
(c) Regretsy.
(d) Prstost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?

2. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

3. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

4. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?

5. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?

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