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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 novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Alexander Marsh.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

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

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

4. Tarkovsky states in Chapter III that cause and effect are mutually, what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Dependent.
(d) Reactive.

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

2. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

3. 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")?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the relationship of the artist to his audience? What is the role of intercommunication?

4. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?

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

6. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?

7. How does Tarkovsky define time and memory in Chapter III?

8. When does Tarkovsky say he doubted his calling as an artist, in Chapter IV?

9. Who was Tarkovsky's father? What was his occupation?

10. What does Tarkovsky write of his film school days in Chapter IV?

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