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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. 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."

2. What Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, is best known for Ulysses?

3. What is the title of Chapter II?

4. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

5. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tarkovsky feel the director should view the audience? What credit does he give them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is music's role in film, according to Tarkovsky?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the common themes and stylistic elements for which Tarkovsky is known. What themes recurred in the films discussed in class and in the text?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Tarkovsky's comparisons between Thomas Mann and Leo Tolstoy. What stylistic similarities and differences exist in each author's work?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reasons that cinema has evolved as it has though time, examining Tarkovsky's point of view. Why and how does Tarkovsky believe cinema arose when it did? What changes was he unable to witness?

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