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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 was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

2. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

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

4. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

5. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?

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

4. What does Tarkovsky say of cinematic "tricks" and special effects in Chapter III?

5. What is music's role in film, according to Tarkovsky?

6. What does Tarkovsky define "the artist" as in the text? What is the artist's chief weapon and goal?

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

8. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?

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

10. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?

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

Describe Sergei Eisenstein and his cinematic theories. How do Tarkovsky's theories on art and the cinema differ?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the letters Tarkovsky cites as his reasons for writing Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema. What was the common response to Tarkovsky's works?

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