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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. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
2. What is the title of Chapter II?
3. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
4. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tarkovsky say of the role of screenwriters in Chapter III?
2. What does Tarkovsky define "the artist" as in the text? What is the artist's chief weapon and goal?
3. How did Tarkovsky approach editing the story of Ivan's Childhood?
4. What does Tarkovsky claim his reasons were in writing, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema in the Introduction?
5. Describe the protagonist and his journey in Andrey Rublyov.
6. What drew Tarkovsky to produce Ivan's Childhood? Which film was this for Tarkovsky?
7. What does Tarkovsky lament of modern art and mankind in Chapter IV?
8. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?
9. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?
10. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the first motion picture ever released. What was the subject? How long was the film? What was the audience reaction?
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 Tarkovsky's position on commercialism and the cinema. How does he suggest the director approach compromise?
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