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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) River.
(b) Little boy.
(c) Mother.
(d) Cock.

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

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

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

8. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky claims to be against structuralist attempts to look at a _________ as a sign of something else.

2. Who wrote the book Images?

3. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?

4. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?

5. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?

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