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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Yuri Nikulin.

2. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Lieutenant Galtsev.

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

4. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Francois Indriut.
(c) Ingmar Bergman.
(d) Auguste Lumiere.

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

6. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1989.

7. Who starred in the film, Persona?
(a) Liv Ullmann.
(b) Maria A'delair.
(c) Sara Martinez.
(d) Elizabeth Poin.

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

9. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1972.

10. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?
(a) Arseniy Alexandrovich Tarkovsky.
(b) Alexander Gordon.
(c) Alexander Gorky.
(d) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.

11. 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?
(a) Michail Carwovsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Alexander Grin.

12. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Beckett.

13. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?
(a) The Realistic Movement.
(b) Modern art.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Mankind.

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

15. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(b) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(c) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(d) I Cor 15, 1-4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

2. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

3. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

4. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

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