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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) Robert Burns.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) James Joyce.

2. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1910.
(d) l951.

3. 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) Everything.
(d) Established theory.

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

5. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(b) The Responsibility of the Artist.
(c) Imprinted Time.
(d) The Beginning.

6. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?
(a) Solaris.
(b) Andrei Rublev.
(c) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(d) Mirror.

7. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 17.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

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

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

10. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) Their family security.
(b) The rest of their lives.
(c) Their past.
(d) Their happiness.

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

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

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

14. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1977.

15. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Evil.
(b) God.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Meaning of existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?

3. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?

4. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

5. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

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