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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?
(a) Arseniy Alexandrovich Tarkovsky.
(b) Alexander Gorky.
(c) Alexander Gordon.
(d) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.

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

3. 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) Realistic performance.
(c) Stylistic art.
(d) Poetic cinema.

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

5. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Karishnakov.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

6. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Michail Carwovsky.

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) Literature.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Man.
(d) Art.

8. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
(a) Leon Battista Alberti.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

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

10. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1965.

11. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.

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

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

14. 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.

15. 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) Robert Burns.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?

2. 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?

3. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

4. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?

5. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?

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