View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."
(a) God.
(b) Truth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Faith.

2. 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) Ukraine.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Gorky.
(d) London.

3. Who directed the film, Persona?
(a) Igmar Berman.
(b) Donatas Banionis.
(c) Sergei Eisenstein.
(d) Robert Bresson.

4. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Time.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Truth.
(d) Humanity.

5. What is the title of Chapter IV?
(a) The Stalker.
(b) Cinema's Destined Role.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) The Beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce the student film, There Will be No Leave Today?

3. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

4. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?

5. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 255 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample