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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Trigger.
(d) Retreat.

2. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?
(a) Arseniy Alexandrovich Tarkovsky.
(b) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(c) Alexander Gorky.
(d) Alexander Gordon.

3. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Raphael.

4. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Production script.
(b) Storyboard.
(c) Post-production script.
(d) Shooting script.

5. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Hamlet.

6. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Innokenity Tarkovsky.
(d) Alexander Tarkovsky.

7. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Love.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Art.
(d) Beauty.

8. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Auguste Lumiere.
(c) Francois Indriut.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

9. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

10. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Killer.

11. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Richard III.
(b) King Solomon.
(c) King Henry VI.
(d) King James I.

12. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Vague.
(b) Large.
(c) Slight.
(d) Overwhelming.

13. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Bollingsworth.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

14. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Composite.
(b) Determined.
(c) Communicative.
(d) Expansive.

15. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Igmar Berman.
(b) Robert Bresson.
(c) Sergei Eisenstein.
(d) Donatas Banionis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

2. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?

3. What term does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?

4. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

5. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

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