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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) Moscow.

2. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Overwhelming.
(b) Slight.
(c) Vague.
(d) Large.

3. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?
(a) Karishnakov.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Chekhov.

4. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Falling placement.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Finale.
(d) Ending.

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) Reality.
(d) Quality.

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. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

3. 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?

4. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?

5. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?

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