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

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

3. What is the setting of, Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) A military hospital.
(b) A monastery.
(c) A school.
(d) A cafe and boulevard.

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

5. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
(a) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(b) Andrei Gorchakov.
(c) Beryózovsky.
(d) Vassily Zhukovsky.

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

7. What is the title of Chapter VI?
(a) The Author in Search of an Audience.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Stalker.
(d) The Artist's Responsibility.

8. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Artist's Responsibility.
(d) The Author in Search of an Audience.

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

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

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

12. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Old Woman.
(b) Natalia.
(c) Nadezhda.
(d) Narrator.

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

14. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?
(a) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(b) Andrei Gorchakov.
(c) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(d) Oleg Yankovsky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

2. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?

3. In Russian, 'Forgive me', is spoken how?

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

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

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