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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 years.
(d) 2 years.

2. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Production script.
(b) Post-production script.
(c) Storyboard.
(d) Shooting script.

3. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Bollingsworth.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) What the cinema was capable of.
(b) Established theory.
(c) Everything.
(d) Government.

5. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(b) Alexander Kruschev.
(c) Ivan Bondarev.
(d) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

3. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

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

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

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