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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 Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Robert Burns.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 10 seconds.
(c) 50 seconds.
(d) 5 minutes.

3. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?
(a) Sergei Eisenstein.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Pavel Florensky.
(d) Andrey Rublyov.

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

5. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) Stalker.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

2. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

3. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

4. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

5. What is the title of Chapter IV?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When does Tarkovsky say he doubted his calling as an artist, in Chapter IV?

3. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them?

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

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

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

7. What does Tarkovsky define "the artist" as in the text? What is the artist's chief weapon and goal?

8. How does Tarkovsky define time and memory in Chapter III?

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

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

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