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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Robert Bresson.
(b) Donatas Banionis.
(c) Chapayev.
(d) Igmar Berman.

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

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

5. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

6. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1951.

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

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. 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.

10. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Evgeny Zharikov.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

4. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?

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

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