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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. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?
(a) Princess.
(b) Witch.
(c) Vampire.
(d) Angel.

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

3. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?
(a) Justification.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Moralizing.
(d) Ideology.

4. Who is the author of War and Peace?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Doestoyevsky.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Alexander Grin.

5. What director's cinematic version of Macbeth is discussed in Chapter V?
(a) Bergman's.
(b) Brunuel's.
(c) Tarkovsky's.
(d) Kurosawa's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VIII?

2. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?

3. What is the title of Chapter VII?

4. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?

5. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Tarkovsky describe the use of symbolism in his films?

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

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

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