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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

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

3. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

4. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

5. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Sergei Eisenstein and his cinematic theories. How do Tarkovsky's theories on art and the cinema differ?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Tarkovsky's view of the relationship between artist and audience. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them? How do other directors differ in this regard?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the director and filmmaker, Luis Buñuel Portolés. Why does Tarkovsky discuss him in the text?

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