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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Alexander Marsh.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

3. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Russian-Siberian War.
(d) World War I.

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?
(a) Camera angleship.
(b) Direction.
(c) Artistic approach.
(d) Mise-en-scene.

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Falsehood.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Trigger.
(d) Retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

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

3. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

5. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

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