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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1951.

2. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Finale.
(c) Falling placement.
(d) Ending.

3. 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?
(a) Salvation.
(b) God.
(c) Truth.
(d) Freedom.

4. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 15.

5. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?
(a) Mark Allen White.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

6. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Art.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

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

8. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) There Will be No Leave Today.
(b) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(c) The Killers.
(d) Solaris.

9. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?
(a) Robert Burns.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

10. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(c) Imprinted Time.
(d) The Responsibility of the Artist.

11. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Homer.
(d) Donovan.

12. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 years.

13. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) The Killer.

14. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(b) Innokenity Tarkovsky.
(c) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(d) Ignat Tarkovsky.

15. When was the film, Persona, produced?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

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

3. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

4. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

5. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?

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