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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 the film, L'Argent, released?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1980.

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

3. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.
(b) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.
(c) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(d) State Institute of Cinematography.

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

5. 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 stagnations.
(c) Two pauses.
(d) Two conflicts.

6. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Ugetsu Monogatari.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Pushkin.

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

8. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1871.

9. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1972.

10. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Absolute laws.
(c) Regulation.
(d) Governmental control.

11. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) Their happiness.
(b) Their family security.
(c) The rest of their lives.
(d) Their past.

12. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Alexander Kruschev.
(b) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(c) Ivan Bondarev.
(d) Lieutenant Galtsev.

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

14. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Sameul Beckett.
(d) James Joyce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

2. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?

3. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?

4. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

5. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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