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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. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

2. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

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

4. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tarkovsky write in Chapter II of art's aim in preparation of man?

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

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

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

8. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the film, Andrey Rublyov. When was it produced? What is the subject of the film? What is the setting? Who are the principle characters?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the first motion picture ever released. What was the subject? How long was the film? What was the audience reaction?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Tarkovsky's position on commercialism and the cinema. How does he suggest the director approach compromise?

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