View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novelist wrote The Possessed?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Marsh.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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?"
(a) Gorky.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

3. How many moras are contained in a haiku?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

2. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

3. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

4. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

5. What term is used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography, stage design, and direction?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample