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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. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter IX that he got the idea for The Sacrifice long before what film?
(a) The Killer.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Stalker.

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

3. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1969.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?

2. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?

3. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

4. Who wrote the poems upon which the film, Mirror, was loosely based?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the journey of the protagonist in Nostalgia? How is it tragic?

5. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?

6. What is the journey of the protagonist in The Sacrifice? How is Tarkovsky's life reflected in the film?

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

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

9. Describe Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia. Where and when was it filmed?

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

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