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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 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?

2. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

3. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?

4. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

5. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tarkovsky define "the artist" as in the text? What is the artist's chief weapon and goal?

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

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

7. Describe Tarkovsky's take on the mise-en-scene of film.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the career and film contributions of Ingmar Bergman. What is Tarkovsky's view of this artist? Why?

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

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?

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