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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 is the title of Chapter II?
(a) The Responsibility of the Artist.
(b) Imprinted Time.
(c) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(d) The Beginning.

2. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?
(a) Paul Valéry.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Effendi Kapiyev.
(d) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.

3. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Man.
(b) Literature.
(c) Art.
(d) Cinema.

4. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Trigger.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Retreat.
(d) Falsehood.

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?
(a) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(b) University of Moscow.
(c) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(d) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

2. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?

3. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

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

5. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky define as cinema's unique aspect in Chapter III? What would the ideal film be?

2. Describe the protagonist and his journey in Andrey Rublyov.

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

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

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

6. What drew Tarkovsky to produce Ivan's Childhood? Which film was this for Tarkovsky?

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

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

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

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

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