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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. Who is the central character in the film, The Sacrifice?
(a) Ishobar.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Alexander.
(d) Natalia.
2. What was the first version of The Sacrifice to be titled initially?
(a) The Salvation.
(b) The Witch.
(c) The Savior.
(d) Stalker.
3. What Chinese concept is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn?
(a) Black and White.
(b) Yin and Yang.
(c) Tao.
(d) Frog and Elephant.
4. What Russian serf composer appears in Nostalgia?
(a) Vassily Zhukovsky.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Vyacheslav Ivanov.
(d) Beryózovsky.
5. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Old Woman.
(b) Nadezhda.
(c) Natalia.
(d) Narrator.
Short Answer Questions
1. Of all of his films, in retrospect, Tarkovsky writes, "I have always wanted to tell of people possessed of" what?
2. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?
3. What is the name of the central character in Nostalgia?
4. Tarkovsky begins Chapter VII by returning to the comparison of cinema to what?
5. What does Tarkovsky claim an artist never truly is, in Chapter VI?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Tarkovsky describe the stresses of filming on The Sacrifice?
2. What does Tarkovsky define "commercializing" as in Chapter VII? What is the filmmaker's duty in this regard?
3. Describe Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia. Where and when was it filmed?
4. How does Tarkovsky describe the use of symbolism in his films?
5. What kept Tarkovsky from quitting the cinema after Mirror?
6. What is the journey of the protagonist in Nostalgia? How is it tragic?
7. What makes the cinema different than other art forms, according to Tarkovsky?
8. What percentage of an audience is there for entertainment, according to Tarkovsky? Who must the director play to?
9. What does Tarkovsky write of "heroes" in Chapter VIII?
10. How does Tarkovsky describe the difference between painting and cinema in Chapter VII?
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