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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two missions.
(b) Two conflicts.
(c) Two stagnations.
(d) Two pauses.

2. 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) Artistic approach.
(b) Camera angleship.
(c) Mise-en-scene.
(d) Direction.

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

4. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Stalker.

5. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Richard III.
(b) King James I.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Henry VI.

6. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Trigger.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Retreat.

7. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Art.
(b) Love.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Beauty.

8. 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) Chapayev.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Marx.

9. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 15, 1-4.
(b) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(c) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(d) I Cor 10, 1-8.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

2. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

3. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

4. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

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

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