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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Truth.
(d) God.

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

3. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Donovan.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Ovid.

4. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Evgeny Zharikov.
(b) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(c) Ivan Bondarev.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

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

6. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1959.

7. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Art.
(b) Man.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Literature.

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

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

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

11. 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"?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

3. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

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

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

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