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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 well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(d) Yuri Nikulin.

2. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

3. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Expansive.
(b) Determined.
(c) Communicative.
(d) Composite.

4. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Russian-Siberian War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

5. 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) University of Moscow.
(b) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(c) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(d) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

2. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

4. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

5. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write of his film school days in Chapter IV?

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

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

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

5. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?

6. What paintings does Tarkovsky compare when discussing "masterpiece" in Chapter II?

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

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

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

10. Describe Tarkovsky's take on the mise-en-scene of film.

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