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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who played the title role in the film, Stalker?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Alexander Kaidanovsky.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Kenji Mizoguchi.

2. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?
(a) Dwells on it.
(b) Never sees it.
(c) Re-edits it.
(d) Stops thinking about it.

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

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

5. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that all art is by nature, what?
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) Truthful.
(c) For the people.
(d) Beautiful.

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

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

8. What novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin is described by Tarkovsky in Chapter V?
(a) The Covetous Knight.
(b) Eugene Onegin.
(c) Boris Godunov.
(d) Mozart and Salieri.

9. 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.

10. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
(a) Andrei Gorchakov.
(b) Beryózovsky.
(c) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(d) Vyacheslav Ivanov.

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

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

13. Who played the role of Alexander in The Sacrifice?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(c) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.
(d) Erland Josephson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the book Images?

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. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?

5. What is the title of Chapter VI?

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