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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. 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) Karl Marx.
(d) Vladimir Bogomolov.

2. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Kuleshov.
(b) Smoktunovsky.
(c) Tarkovsky.
(d) Bogomolov.

3. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?
(a) Alexandra.
(b) Eugenia.
(c) Maria.
(d) Sarah.

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

5. Who wrote Tales of Sevastopol?
(a) Doestoyevsky.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?

3. 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"?

4. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?

5. Who starred in the film, Nostalgia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tarkovsky define "commercializing" as in Chapter VII? What is the filmmaker's duty in this regard?

5. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?

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

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

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

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

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

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