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

2. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King Henry VI.
(b) King James I.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Richard III.

3. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Karishnakov.
(d) Chekhov.

4. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

5. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
(a) Leon Battista Alberti.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Michaelangelo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

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

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?

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

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

5. How has the cinema evolved and why, since its inception?

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

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

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

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

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

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