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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 well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?

2. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

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

4. 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"?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. When does Tarkovsky say he doubted his calling as an artist, in Chapter IV?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the concept of objectivity and subjectivity in judging art. Is it possible to set standards for art or is art an entirely aesthetic and subjective medium? What is Tarkovsky's belief?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the common themes and stylistic elements for which Tarkovsky is known. What themes recurred in the films discussed in class and in the text?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the career and film contributions of Ingmar Bergman. What is Tarkovsky's view of this artist? Why?

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