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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Time.
(c) Truth.
(d) Humanity.

2. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) The Russian-Siberian War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Cold War.

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

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Alexander Blok.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

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."
(a) Morals.
(b) Point of view.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Understanding and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Tarkovsky born?

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

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

4. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?

5. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?

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