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

2. What is the title of Chapter II?

3. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What admiration does Tarkovsky lend to Bunuel in Chapter II? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the film, Andrey Rublyov. When was it produced? What is the subject of the film? What is the setting? Who are the principle characters?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Tarkovsky's position on commercialism and the cinema. How does he suggest the director approach compromise?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Tarkovsky's reasoning of time as the central element of film. What other art forms incorporate time and or memory? How?

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