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

2. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Alexander Kruschev.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(d) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.

3. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

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

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

5. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky lament of modern art and mankind in Chapter IV?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Tarkovsky learn of subjectivity in the artist making Ivan's Childhood?

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