View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Slow.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Boring.
(d) Elitist.

2. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(b) There Will be No Leave Today.
(c) The Killers.
(d) Solaris.

3. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Falsehood.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Trigger.
(d) Paradox.

4. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Nostalgia.

5. Who said, "The function of the image is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life"?
(a) Gogol.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Marx.
(d) Kurosawa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."

2. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?

3. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

4. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

5. In Chapter V, Tarkovsky writes, "I am always sickened when an artist underpins his system of images with deliberate tendentiousness or" what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 257 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample