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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. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1959.

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

3. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1910.
(d) l951.

4. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Francois Indriut.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Auguste Lumiere.
(d) Ingmar Bergman.

5. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Igmar Berman.
(b) Robert Bresson.
(c) Chapayev.
(d) Donatas Banionis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?

2. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

3. What is the title of Chapter II?

4. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

5. What is the title of Chapter IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim his reasons were in writing, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema in the Introduction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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