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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

5. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Stalker.

6. 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) Narcissism.
(d) Godlessness.

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

8. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Marx.
(d) Tolstoy.

9. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Andrey Rublev.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(d) Alexander Blok.

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) Naturalism.
(d) Neo-symbolism.

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

12. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Alexander Kaidanovsky.

13. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Not short.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Impossible to demonstrate.
(d) Not long.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?

2. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?

3. What is the title of Chapter VII?

4. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?

5. 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."

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