1. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?
(a) Sergei Eisenstein.
(b) Donatas Banionis.
(c) Andrey Rublyov.
(d) Luis Bunuel.

2. 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"?
(a) Literature.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Man.
(d) Art.

3. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1972.

4. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) London.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Ukraine.

5. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Bollingsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

2. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

3. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

4. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

5. What is the title of Chapter II?

(see the answer key)

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