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

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

3. 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.

4. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?
(a) Important.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Meaningful.
(d) Viable.

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

6. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?
(a) Boris Godunov.
(b) Mozart and Salieri.
(c) The Covetous Knight.
(d) Eugene Onegin.

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

8. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?
(a) Moralizing.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Justification.

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

10. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?
(a) Bishko.
(b) Illkiu.
(c) Juini.
(d) Basho.

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

12. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-destruction.
(b) Self-promotion.
(c) Self-assertion.
(d) Self-denial.

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

14. Tarkovsky claims to be against structuralist attempts to look at a _________ as a sign of something else.
(a) Plot.
(b) Rain.
(c) Character.
(d) Frame.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter VII?

3. What filming technique did Tarkovsky implement more in The Sacrifice than in any of his other films?

4. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?

5. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?

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