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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Larisa Tarkovskaya.
(b) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(c) Ignat Daniltsev.
(d) Margarita Terekhova.

2. 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 family security.
(d) Their happiness.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."
(a) Morals.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Point of view.
(d) Understanding and love.

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

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

6. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1871.

7. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Karishnakov.

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

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

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

11. 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"?
(a) Mankind.
(b) The Realistic Movement.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Modern art.

12. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(b) Ivan Bondarev.
(c) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

13. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Chapayev.
(b) Donatas Banionis.
(c) Robert Bresson.
(d) Igmar Berman.

14. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Peace.
(b) Quality.
(c) Reality.
(d) Story.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?

2. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

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

4. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

5. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.

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