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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Sameul Beckett.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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

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

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

11. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Mark Allen White.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

12. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1968
(c) 1982.
(d) 1975.

13. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?
(a) Mise-en-scene.
(b) Artistic approach.
(c) Direction.
(d) Camera angleship.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

3. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?

4. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

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