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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Morals.
(b) Understanding and love.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Point of view.

3. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.
(b) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(c) State Institute of Cinematography.
(d) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.

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

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

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

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

8. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Chapayev.
(b) Robert Bresson.
(c) Donatas Banionis.
(d) Igmar Berman.

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

10. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 years.

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

12. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Hideousness.
(d) Art.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?

2. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

3. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?

4. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

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

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