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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 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"?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Godlessness.
(d) Narcissism.

2. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Eisenstein.
(d) Heerkomer.

3. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?
(a) Alexander Grin.
(b) Alexander Herzen.
(c) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(d) Karl Marx.

4. What artist claimed "no acclaim could please me more than to have ordinary working people wanting to hang my lithographs in their rooms or their workshops"?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Vincent Van Gogh.

5. Who is quoted as having said, "'Life is more fantastic than any fiction" in Chapter V?
(a) Marx.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?

2. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

3. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?

4. What refers to a military rank and historical title for a hereditary military dictator of Japan?

5. Who had played the lead in all of Tarkovsky's films prior to The Sacrifice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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