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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What central character of The Possessed is quoted in the beginning of Chapter III?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Ivanov.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Kapiyev.

2. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Trigger.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Paradox.

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

4. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Russian-Siberian War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Cold War.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?

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

3. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

4. How many moras are contained in a haiku?

5. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write in Chapter II of art's aim in preparation of man?

2. How did Tarkovsky approach editing the story of Ivan's Childhood?

3. How has the cinema evolved and why, since its inception?

4. What does Tarkovsky say of the role of screenwriters in Chapter III?

5. Who was Innokentiy Smoktunovsky? What was he known for?

6. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did?

7. What does Tarkovsky assert of modern man in his Introduction to the text?

8. What does Tarkovsky define "the artist" as in the text? What is the artist's chief weapon and goal?

9. What is the essential meaning of art to Tarkovsky? What does he write of modern art?

10. What drew Tarkovsky to produce Ivan's Childhood? Which film was this for Tarkovsky?

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