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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Mark Allen White.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) After Nostalgia.
(b) The Stalker.
(c) The Beginning.
(d) Cinema's Destined Role.

3. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) The Killers.
(b) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(c) There Will be No Leave Today.
(d) Solaris.

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

5. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?
(a) Pavel Florensky.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Andrey Rublyov.
(d) Sergei Eisenstein.

6. 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) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(b) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(c) University of Moscow.
(d) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.

7. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Truth.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Time.

8. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

9. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) God.
(b) Meaning of existence.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Evil.

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

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

12. 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) Art.
(d) Man.

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

14. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Tantamount.
(d) Possible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

3. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

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

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

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