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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(b) Larisa Tarkovskaya.
(c) Margarita Terekhova.
(d) Ignat Daniltsev.

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

3. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

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

5. 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) Cinema.
(c) Literature.
(d) Man.

6. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Effendi Kapiyev.
(b) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Alexander Blok.

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

8. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1986.

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

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

11. 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) Understanding and love.
(b) Morals.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Point of view.

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

13. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Ivanov.
(c) Kapiyev.
(d) Pasternak.

14. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1932.

15. When was the film, Persona, produced?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

3. Who starred in the film, Persona?

4. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

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

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