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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Truth.
(b) God.
(c) Faith.
(d) Beauty.

2. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Beauty.

3. 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) Humanity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Time.
(d) Cinema.

4. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(b) Yuri Nikulin.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

5. Who starred in the film, Persona?
(a) Maria A'delair.
(b) Elizabeth Poin.
(c) Sara Martinez.
(d) Liv Ullmann.

6. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1986.

7. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) God.
(b) Evil.
(c) Meaning of existence.
(d) Mankind.

8. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Michaelangelo.
(c) Carpaccio.
(d) Humphries.

9. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Absolute laws.
(c) Governmental control.
(d) Opinion.

10. While making which film was Tarkovsky unsure whether his calling was as a film director?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

11. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?
(a) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(b) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(c) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(d) University of Moscow.

12. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Acronymy.
(b) Polylynism.
(c) Metonism.
(d) Metonymy.

13. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
(a) King James I.
(b) King Henry VI.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Richard III.

14. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(b) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.
(c) State Institute of Cinematography.
(d) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.

15. With whom did Tarkovsky make a student film in his fourth year of school?
(a) Alexander Gordon.
(b) Arseniy Alexandrovich Tarkovsky.
(c) Alexander Gorky.
(d) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?

2. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

4. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

5. 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?

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