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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Truman Capote.

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Story.
(b) Reality.
(c) Quality.
(d) Peace.

3. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?
(a) Luis Bunuel.
(b) Pavel Florensky.
(c) Andrey Rublyov.
(d) Sergei Eisenstein.

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

5. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) LaSalle.
(b) Proust.
(c) Bordeaux.
(d) Millardeaux.

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

7. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Stanislavsky.

8. 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) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Michail Carwovsky.
(d) Alexander Grin.

9. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Production script.
(b) Storyboard.
(c) Shooting script.
(d) Post-production script.

10. What term does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?
(a) Realistic performance.
(b) Stylistic art.
(c) Modern art.
(d) Poetic cinema.

11. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Dependent.
(d) Reactive.

12. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two pauses.
(b) Two missions.
(c) Two conflicts.
(d) Two stagnations.

13. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Killers.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?

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

4. Who directed the film, Persona?

5. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

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