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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Falling placement.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Ending.
(d) Finale.

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

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

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

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

7. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Point of view.
(b) Understanding and love.
(c) Morals.
(d) Beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?

2. When was Tarkovsky born?

3. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

4. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

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

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