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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Modern art.
(b) Poetic cinema.
(c) Realistic performance.
(d) Stylistic art.

2. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 50 seconds.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 10 seconds.

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

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Polylynism.
(b) Metonism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Acronymy.

5. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) Gorky.

6. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Robert Burns.
(d) James Joyce.

7. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Yuri Nikulin.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

8. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1989.

9. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1972.

10. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Slight.
(b) Vague.
(c) Large.
(d) Overwhelming.

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

12. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Stalker.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter IV?

3. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

4. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

5. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

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