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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. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Ugetsu Monogatari.

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

3. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Bollingsworth.
(d) Hemingway.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?

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

4. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

5. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tarkovsky learn of subjectivity in the artist making Ivan's Childhood?

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

3. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?

4. Describe the protagonist and his journey in Andrey Rublyov.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Tarkovsky say of cinematic "tricks" and special effects in Chapter III?

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