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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
2. When was Tarkovsky born?
3. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
4. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
5. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?
Short Essay Questions
1. What drew Tarkovsky to produce Ivan's Childhood? Which film was this for Tarkovsky?
2. What is music's role in film, according to Tarkovsky?
3. When does Tarkovsky say he doubted his calling as an artist, in Chapter IV?
4. What does Tarkovsky write in Chapter II of art's aim in preparation of man?
5. Describe the film Mirror. When was it produced?
6. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did?
7. What does Tarkovsky define a "masterpiece" as?
8. What was the first moving picture to be released? When and where was it released?
9. What does Tarkovsky say of the role of screenwriters in Chapter III?
10. What types of imagery did Tarkovsky use in Ivan's Childhood? From where did he draw his ideas?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the director and filmmaker, Luis Buñuel Portolés. Why does Tarkovsky discuss him in the text?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Tarkovsky's view of the relationship between artist and audience. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them? How do other directors differ in this regard?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Tarkovsky's comparisons between Thomas Mann and Leo Tolstoy. What stylistic similarities and differences exist in each author's work?
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