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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

3. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?

4. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did?

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

4. What does Tarkovsky assert of modern man in his Introduction to the text?

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

6. How has the cinema evolved and why, since its inception?

7. What does Tarkovsky say of the role of screenwriters in Chapter III?

8. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?

9. What is music's role in film, according to Tarkovsky?

10. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?

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