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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) The Killer.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

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

5. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Stalker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?

2. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

3. What is the title of Chapter II?

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

5. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tarkovsky approach editing the story of Ivan's Childhood?

2. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?

3. What is the relationship of the artist to his audience? What is the role of intercommunication?

4. What does Tarkovsky write in Chapter II of art's aim in preparation of man?

5. What admiration does Tarkovsky lend to Bunuel in Chapter II? Why?

6. Describe the film Mirror. When was it produced?

7. Who was Innokentiy Smoktunovsky? What was he known for?

8. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?

9. What does Tarkovsky define as cinema's unique aspect in Chapter III? What would the ideal film be?

10. What does Tarkovsky claim his reasons were in writing, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema in the Introduction?

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