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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) There Will be No Leave Today.
(b) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(c) Solaris.
(d) The Killers.

2. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Production script.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Storyboard.
(d) Post-production script.

3. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Bollingsworth.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

4. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Homer.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Donovan.

5. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(b) I Cor 13, 1-16.
(c) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(d) I Cor 15, 1-4.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?

5. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

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