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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Alexander Kruschev.
(c) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(d) Lieutenant Galtsev.

2. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1974.

3. 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?
(a) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(b) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(c) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(d) University of Moscow.

4. What is the title of Chapter II?
(a) Imprinted Time.
(b) Art--A Yearning for the Ideal.
(c) The Responsibility of the Artist.
(d) The Beginning.

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) Mise-en-scene.
(c) Camera angleship.
(d) Direction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

3. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?

4. 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?

5. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?

(see the answer key)

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