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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. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?

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

3. 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?

4. In what year was Marcel Proust born?

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the film Mirror. When was it produced?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Tarkovsky assert of modern man in his Introduction to the text?

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

9. What admiration does Tarkovsky lend to Bunuel in Chapter II? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe the film, Ivan's Childhood. When was it produced? How long did the film take to shoot? What is the subject, plot and theme?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Tarkovsky's reasoning of time as the central element of film. What other art forms incorporate time and or memory? How?

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