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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 is the setting of, Tales of Sevastopol?
2. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
3. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?
4. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?
5. In Chapter VII, Tarkovsky writes that "the director's power is such that it can create the illusion for him of being a kind of" what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kept Tarkovsky from quitting the cinema after Mirror?
2. What percentage of an audience is there for entertainment, according to Tarkovsky? Who must the director play to?
3. Tarkovsky describes the filmmaker's responsibility to share his story in Chapter VII. What does he say?
4. What is the journey of the protagonist in Nostalgia? How is it tragic?
5. What does Tarkovsky write of "heroes" in Chapter VIII?
6. What does Tarkovsky write of the director's "vision" in Chapter V?
7. What Japanese form of art does Tarkovsky repeatedly compare cinema to? Why?
8. What painting of Leonardo Da Vinci's does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter V? What remarks does he make on the painting?
9. Due to the state that cinema is in, what struggles does the artist face as filmmaker? What does Tarkovsky suggest he focus on?
10. What is the journey of the protagonist in The Sacrifice? How is Tarkovsky's life reflected in the film?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the progress which has been made since the first cinematic exposure in 1896. How did this progress take place? Where has the bulk of it been in time?
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 Sergei Eisenstein and his cinematic theories. How do Tarkovsky's theories on art and the cinema differ?
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