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

2. Who played the role of Adelaide in The Sacrifice?
(a) Susan Fleetwood.
(b) Anatoliy Solonitsyn.
(c) Sarah Moorewood.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

3. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Spain.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

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

5. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Andrey Rublev.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(d) Alexander Blok.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?

2. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

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?

4. Of whom does Tarkovsky write, "wasn't trying to convey his own experience to anyone, he wanted to put across ideas, purely and simply"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What Japanese form of art does Tarkovsky repeatedly compare cinema to? Why?

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. What is the journey of the protagonist in Nostalgia? How is it tragic?

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

6. How does Tarkovsky describe the use of symbolism in his films?

7. What does Tarkovsky claim the link is between the artist and audience in Chapter VI?

8. Due to the state that cinema is in, what struggles does the artist face as filmmaker? What does Tarkovsky suggest he focus on?

9. How does Tarkovsky describe the stresses of filming on The Sacrifice?

10. What does Tarkovsky mean by "immediate" art forms in Chapter VII?

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