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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The film, Stalker, was based loosely on what novel?
(a) Last Night at Moscow.
(b) True Blood.
(c) Roadside Picnic.
(d) The Last Train.

2. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1959.

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

4. What French film director directed, L'Argent?
(a) Chapayev.
(b) Igmar Berman.
(c) Donatas Banionis.
(d) Robert Bresson.

5. What Chinese concept is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn?
(a) Frog and Elephant.
(b) Tao.
(c) Yin and Yang.
(d) Black and White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

2. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

3. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

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

5. Who observed, "Poets are philosophers. You might equally well compare the painter of sea-scapes to a ship's captain"?

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