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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Marx.
(d) Pushkin.

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

8. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?
(a) Marx.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Doestoyevsky.
(d) Pushkin.

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

10. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?
(a) Inner freedom.
(b) Inner wisdom.
(c) Inner courage.
(d) Inner strength.

11. What is a critical term used for a specific trend of nineteenth-century European literature and associated principally with the name of Zola?
(a) Neo-symbolism.
(b) Naturalism.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Realism.

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

13. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Meanings.
(b) Themes.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Plots.

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

15. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Tarkovsky.
(b) Bogomolov.
(c) Smoktunovsky.
(d) Kuleshov.

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. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

3. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?

4. 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."

5. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?

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