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

2. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 30.
(b) 3.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

3. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Truman Capote.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1977.

5. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Pushkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

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

4. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

5. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Tarkovsky say of cinematic "tricks" and special effects in Chapter III?

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

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

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