1. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Metaphor.

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

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

4. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Paul Valéry.

5. 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?
(a) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(b) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(c) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(d) University of Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

3. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?

4. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

5. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?

(see the answer key)

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