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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first version of The Sacrifice to be titled initially?
(a) Stalker.
(b) The Savior.
(c) The Witch.
(d) The Salvation.

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

3. In what year was the film, Nostalgia, produced?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1983.

4. 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"?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Godlessness.

5. 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"?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Vincent Van Gogh.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Rembrandt.

6. What filming technique did Tarkovsky implement more in The Sacrifice than in any of his other films?
(a) The fade in.
(b) The fade out.
(c) The long shot.
(d) The dolly shot.

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

8. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) The Author in Search of an Audience.
(b) After Nostalgia.
(c) The Artist's Responsibility.
(d) The Beginning.

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

10. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Hemingway.

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

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

13. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?
(a) Lying.
(b) Free.
(c) Rich.
(d) Truthful.

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

15. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."
(a) Industry.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Public satisfaction.

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. Who wrote the novel, The Magic Mountain?

3. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?

4. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?

5. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?

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