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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the film, Persona, produced?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1959.

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

4. 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) Impossible.
(d) Possible.

5. What Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist developed the optical laws of the Renaissance?
(a) Michaelangelo.
(b) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?

2. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

3. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

4. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

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

(see the answer key)

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