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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Regulation.
(c) Governmental control.
(d) Absolute laws.

3. Tarkovsky states that cinema's unique aspect is this capturing and shaping of what?
(a) Character.
(b) Space.
(c) Story.
(d) Time.

4. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Falling placement.
(b) Ending.
(c) Finale.
(d) Denouement.

5. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1968
(c) 1967.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

2. 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?

3. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

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

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

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