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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) The Killers.
(d) Stalker.

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Regulation.
(c) Absolute laws.
(d) Governmental control.

3. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Tantamount.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Possible.

4. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1968.

5. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Larisa Tarkovskaya.
(b) Ignat Daniltsev.
(c) Margarita Terekhova.
(d) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?

2. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

4. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

5. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

(see the answer key)

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