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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Ingmar Bergman.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Aristophanes.

2. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
(a) Vox populii.
(b) Magnum vox.
(c) Vox magnum.
(d) Mons populii.

3. 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) Eisenstein.
(c) Heerkomer.
(d) Rembrandt.

4. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
(a) Eisenstein's.
(b) Heerkomer's.
(c) Tolstoy's.
(d) Marx's.

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Not short.
(b) Impossible to demonstrate.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Not long.

6. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VIII that there have never been any what in his films?
(a) Plots.
(b) Themes.
(c) Meanings.
(d) Heroes.

7. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?
(a) Kurosawa.
(b) Marx.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Gogol.

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

9. 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.

10. What German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist does Tarkovsky discuss alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Chapter V?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Bach.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Salieri.

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

12. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter V that if he could go back, he would cut out the scene from Mirror with the what?
(a) River.
(b) Mother.
(c) Cock.
(d) Little boy.

13. Who wrote the poem quoted in Chapter IX, which begins, "Weary from hunger of spirit / Through grim wasteland I dragged my way"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Doestoyevsky.
(d) Marx.

14. 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) Tarkovsky.
(c) Smoktunovsky.
(d) Bogomolov.

15. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Valentin Zubkov.
(c) Nikolai Grinko.
(d) Evgeny Zharikov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What filming technique did Tarkovsky implement more in The Sacrifice than in any of his other films?

2. The film, Stalker, was based loosely on what novel?

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

4. The hero of The Sacrifice is cured of a disease after sleeping with a what?

5. Who played the role of Adelaide in The Sacrifice?

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