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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two missions.
(b) Two stagnations.
(c) Two conflicts.
(d) Two pauses.

3. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Possible.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Tantamount.

4. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 years.
(d) 8 months.

5. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1986.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

3. 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?

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

5. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

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