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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 Chinese concept is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn?
(a) Frog and Elephant.
(b) Black and White.
(c) Tao.
(d) Yin and Yang.

2. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Andrey Rublev.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Kenji Mizoguchi.

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

4. What is the setting of, Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) A monastery.
(b) A military hospital.
(c) A school.
(d) A cafe and boulevard.

5. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?
(a) Stops thinking about it.
(b) Re-edits it.
(c) Dwells on it.
(d) Never sees it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?

2. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?

3. 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."

4. Who played the role of Adelaide in The Sacrifice?

5. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What conclusion does Tarkovsky find at the end of Chapter IX regarding mankind's condition?

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

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

7. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?

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

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

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

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