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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Metonism.
(b) Polylynism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Acronymy.

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

5. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Gorky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

2. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

3. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?

4. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

5. Who wrote the book of short stories, In Our Time?

(see the answer key)

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