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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Michail Carwovsky.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

4. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

(see the answer key)

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