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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Hideousness.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Art.
(d) Truth.

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

4. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?
(a) University of Moscow.
(b) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(c) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(d) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.

5. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) God.
(b) Faith.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

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

10. Who starred in the film, Persona?
(a) Maria A'delair.
(b) Elizabeth Poin.
(c) Sara Martinez.
(d) Liv Ullmann.

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

12. 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 family security.
(d) Their past.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film, Persona?

2. 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?

3. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

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

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