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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1940.

5. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Karishnakov.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

6. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) The Stalker.
(b) Cinema's Destined Role.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Beginning.

7. When was the film, Persona, produced?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1959.

8. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) God.
(c) Truth.
(d) Salvation.

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

10. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Determined.
(b) Expansive.
(c) Communicative.
(d) Composite.

11. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Homer.

12. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) King Richard III.
(c) King Henry VI.
(d) King James I.

13. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) What the cinema was capable of.
(b) Government.
(c) Established theory.
(d) Everything.

14. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1901.

15. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Ending.
(b) Finale.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Falling placement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

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

4. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

5. 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"?

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