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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. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
2. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
3. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
4. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
5. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is music's role in film, according to Tarkovsky?
2. What does Tarkovsky define "the artist" as in the text? What is the artist's chief weapon and goal?
3. What does Tarkovsky claim his reasons were in writing, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema in the Introduction?
4. Who was Innokentiy Smoktunovsky? What was he known for?
5. What does Tarkovsky lament of modern art and mankind in Chapter IV?
6. What drew Tarkovsky to produce Ivan's Childhood? Which film was this for Tarkovsky?
7. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?
8. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?
9. How does Tarkovsky define time and memory in Chapter III?
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 director and filmmaker, Luis Buñuel Portolés. Why does Tarkovsky discuss him in the text?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Tarkovsky's film, The Mirror. Who is the central character? What is the plot? What stylistic elements are notable in this film?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the role of art in the world of humanity, as described by Tarkovsky. What is art's role in society? How does the artist go about fulfilling this role?
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