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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 claims to be against structuralist attempts to look at a _________ as a sign of something else.
(a) Character.
(b) Rain.
(c) Plot.
(d) Frame.

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

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

4. 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) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Vincent Van Gogh.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Rembrandt.

5. 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?
(a) Saint.
(b) Martyr.
(c) Demiurge.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the star of the film, Mirror?

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

3. Who wrote, The Death of Ivan Ilych?

4. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

5. 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."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the artist "at odds with society," as Tarkovsky states in Chapter VII?

4. When was, The Sacrifice, conceived of? What drew Tarkovsky to this story?

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

6. Describe Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia. Where and when was it filmed?

7. What painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter V? What remarks does he make on the painting?

8. What does Tarkovsky define "commercializing" as in Chapter VII? What is the filmmaker's duty in this regard?

9. What does Tarkovsky write of the director's "vision" in Chapter V?

10. What regrets and successes did Tarkovsky have for the film, Mirrror?

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