1. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Impossible to demonstrate.
(c) Not short.
(d) Not long.

2. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Beckett.

3. Who does Tarkovsky quote as having said, "If you want to enjoy art, you must be artistically educated"?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Ingmar Bergman.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

5. Who is the author of War and Peace?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Doestoyevsky.
(c) Alexander Grin.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

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

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

4. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

5. When was the film, Persona, produced?

(see the answer key)

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