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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) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Killer.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

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

5. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
(a) Cousteau.
(b) Bresson.
(c) Bergman.
(d) Bruneil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book Images?

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

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?

4. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

5. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the film Mirror evolve from the script to the screen?

4. What painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter V? What remarks does he make on the painting?

5. What is the all-powerful factor of film to Tarkovsky? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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