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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. When was the film, Persona, produced?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1971.

2. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two pauses.
(b) Two stagnations.
(c) Two conflicts.
(d) Two missions.

3. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Faith.
(d) God.

4. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) The rest of their lives.
(b) Their happiness.
(c) Their family security.
(d) Their past.

5. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Possible.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Tantamount.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

3. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?

4. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

5. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?

2. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?

3. What drew Tarkovsky to produce Ivan's Childhood? Which film was this for Tarkovsky?

4. What paintings does Tarkovsky compare when discussing "masterpiece" in Chapter II?

5. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?

6. What does Tarkovsky lament of modern art and mankind in Chapter IV?

7. What did Tarkovsky learn of subjectivity in the artist making Ivan's Childhood?

8. What does Tarkovsky assert of modern man in his Introduction to the text?

9. How does Tarkovsky define time and memory in Chapter III?

10. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?

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