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

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

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

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

4. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?
(a) Story.
(b) Time.
(c) Space.
(d) Character.

5. 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) Modern art.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) The Realistic Movement.

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

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

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

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

10. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) The Killer.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

11. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Russian-Siberian War.

12. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Marsh.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

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

14. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Marx.
(b) Chapayev.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Rublyov.

15. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) Stalker.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Ivan's Childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

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

4. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

5. 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?

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