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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) State Institute of Cinematography.
(b) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(c) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.
(d) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.

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

4. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Evgeny Zharikov.
(b) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(c) Ivan Bondarev.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?
(a) Established theory.
(b) Government.
(c) What the cinema was capable of.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

2. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

3. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

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

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