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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. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
2. 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?
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. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
5. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tarkovsky write in Chapter II of art's aim in preparation of man?
2. How has the cinema evolved and why, since its inception?
3. What does Tarkovsky define as cinema's unique aspect in Chapter III? What would the ideal film be?
4. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them?
5. How did Tarkovsky approach editing the story of Ivan's Childhood?
6. What does Tarkovsky write of his film school days in Chapter IV?
7. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?
8. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?
9. What is the relationship of the artist to his audience? What is the role of intercommunication?
10. Describe Tarkovsky's take on the mise-en-scene of film.
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
Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"? What does this phrase mean in the context of Tarkovsky's theories?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Tarkovsky's film, The Mirror. Who is the central character? What is the plot? What stylistic elements are notable in this film?
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