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

2. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Arseny Tarkovsky.
(c) Evgeny Zharikov.
(d) Nikolai Grinko.

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

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

5. What is the title of Chapter V?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Film Image.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?

2. Who is the author of War and Peace?

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

4. What is the title of Chapter VI?

5. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tarkovsky describe the difference between painting and cinema in Chapter VII?

2. What does Tarkovsky mean by "immediate" art forms in Chapter VII?

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

4. What kept Tarkovsky from quitting the cinema after Mirror?

5. When was, The Sacrifice, conceived of? What drew Tarkovsky to this story?

6. What percentage of an audience is there for entertainment, according to Tarkovsky? Who must the director play to?

7. What does Tarkovsky write of "heroes" in Chapter VIII?

8. What is Tarkovsky's response to "how can the artist even begin to make films to please others"?

9. How is the artist "at odds with society," as Tarkovsky states in Chapter VII?

10. What does Tarkovsky write of the director's "vision" in Chapter V?

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