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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Who wrote the book Images?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Ingmar Bergman.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Thomas Mann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?

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

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

4. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?

5. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky define "commercializing" as in Chapter VII? What is the filmmaker's duty in this regard?

2. How does Tarkovsky describe the stresses of filming on The Sacrifice?

3. What regrets and successes did Tarkovsky have for the film, Mirrror?

4. Tarkovsky describes the filmmaker's responsibility to share his story in Chapter VII. What does he say?

5. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?

6. What makes the cinema different than other art forms, according to Tarkovsky?

7. What Japanese form of art does Tarkovsky repeatedly compare cinema to? Why?

8. How does Tarkovsky describe the use of symbolism in his films?

9. What does Tarkovsky claim the link is between the artist and audience in Chapter VI?

10. Due to the state that cinema is in, what struggles does the artist face as filmmaker? What does Tarkovsky suggest he focus on?

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