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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Hemingway.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Bollingsworth.

2. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1968.

3. 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) Stalker.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) The Sacrifice.

4. 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?
(a) Two missions.
(b) Two stagnations.
(c) Two pauses.
(d) Two conflicts.

5. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Peace.
(b) Story.
(c) Quality.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. When was Tarkovsky born?

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