1. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?
(a) Direction.
(b) Artistic approach.
(c) Camera angleship.
(d) Mise-en-scene.

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

3. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Sameul Beckett.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Russian-Siberian War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

5. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Marsh.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?

3. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

4. Who wrote in, My Past and Thoughts: "In his true works the poet and artist is always national"?

5. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

(see the answer key)

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