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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 Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Karishnakov.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Dostoyevsky.
2. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.
3. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Time.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Cinema.
4. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Falling placement.
(c) Finale.
(d) Ending.
5. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) Their happiness.
(b) The rest of their lives.
(c) Their family security.
(d) Their past.
Short Answer Questions
1. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
2. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
3. What term does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning "cinema that boldly moves away, in its images, from what is factual and concrete, as pictured by real life, and at the same time affirms its own structural wholeness"?
4. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
5. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tarkovsky lament of modern art and mankind in Chapter IV?
2. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?
3. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?
4. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?
5. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them?
6. What admiration does Tarkovsky lend to Bunuel in Chapter II? Why?
7. What paintings does Tarkovsky compare when discussing "masterpiece" in Chapter II?
8. What does Tarkovsky assert of modern man in his Introduction to the text?
9. What does Tarkovsky define as cinema's unique aspect in Chapter III? What would the ideal film be?
10. How does Tarkovsky define time and memory in Chapter III?
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