View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Peace.
(b) Story.
(c) Quality.
(d) Reality.

4. 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) Camera angleship.
(b) Artistic approach.
(c) Direction.
(d) Mise-en-scene.

5. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1968
(c) 1975.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

2. 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?

3. When was Tarkovsky born?

4. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

5. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

(see the answer key)

This section contains 256 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample