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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 seriously considered quitting directing after what film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) The Mirror.

2. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Self-promotion.
(c) Self-denial.
(d) Self-destruction.

3. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1965.

4. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Marx.
(d) Pushkin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

2. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?

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. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?

5. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is success measured, according to Tarkovsky?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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