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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Nostalgia.

2. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1940.

3. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Innokenity Tarkovsky.
(d) Ignat Tarkovsky.

4. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) Solaris.
(b) The Killers.
(c) There Will be No Leave Today.
(d) The Steamroller and the Violin.

5. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?
(a) Artistic approach.
(b) Camera angleship.
(c) Mise-en-scene.
(d) Direction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?

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

5. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

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