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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. 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?
(a) God.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Truth.
(d) Freedom.

2. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Julius Caesar.

3. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.
(a) Truth.
(b) Art.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Hideousness.

4. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Story.
(b) Quality.
(c) Reality.
(d) Peace.

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(b) I Cor 15, 1-4.
(c) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(d) I Gen, 12. 2-4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

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

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

4. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?

5. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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