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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who directed and produced the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) Ingmar Bergman.
(b) Auguste Lumiere.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Francois Indriut.

2. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Post-production script.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Production script.
(d) Storyboard.

3. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) The rest of their lives.
(b) Their past.
(c) Their happiness.
(d) Their family security.

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

5. What notable Russian actor and director developed the most widely used method of acting today?
(a) Meisner.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Stanislavsky.
(d) Chekhov.

6. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1977.

7. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

8. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Boring.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Slow.

9. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?
(a) Andrey Rublyov.
(b) Sergei Eisenstein.
(c) Luis Bunuel.
(d) Pavel Florensky.

10. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) Established theory.
(b) Government.
(c) Everything.
(d) What the cinema was capable of.

11. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Mirror.

12. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(d) Pushkin.

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

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

15. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?
(a) Direction.
(b) Camera angleship.
(c) Mise-en-scene.
(d) Artistic approach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?

2. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?

3. What Russian author wrote the short story, The Forged Coupon?

4. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

5. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

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