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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. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Cold War.
(b) The Russian-Siberian War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

2. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Proust.
(b) LaSalle.
(c) Millardeaux.
(d) Bordeaux.

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

4. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Pushkin.

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Morals.
(b) Point of view.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Understanding and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

2. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

3. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

4. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

5. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tarkovsky write of his film school days in Chapter IV?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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