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

2. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(b) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(c) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.

3. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Larisa Tarkovskaya.
(b) Margarita Terekhova.
(c) Ignat Daniltsev.
(d) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.

4. 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 Sacrifice.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Mirror.

5. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Polylynism.
(b) Metonism.
(c) Acronymy.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?

2. 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."

3. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

4. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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