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

3. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Old Woman.
(b) Narrator.
(c) Nadezhda.
(d) Natalia.

4. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?
(a) Inner freedom.
(b) Inner courage.
(c) Inner wisdom.
(d) Inner strength.

5. Who had played the lead in all of Tarkovsky's films prior to The Sacrifice?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Erland Josephson.

6. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?
(a) Meaningful.
(b) Important.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Viable.

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

8. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Spain.

9. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1979?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Stalker.

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

11. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter VII that he classifies music and cinema as what type of art form?
(a) Immediate.
(b) Pronounced.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Heightened.

12. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
(a) Free.
(b) Assertive.
(c) True.
(d) Creative.

13. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?
(a) Eisenstein.
(b) Marx.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Lenin.

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

15. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What is the title of Chapter VI?

3. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?

4. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?

5. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?

(see the answer keys)

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