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

2. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1974.

3. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Ugetsu Monogatari.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?

2. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

3. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

4. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

(see the answer key)

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