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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) There Will be No Leave Today.
(b) The Killers.
(c) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(d) Solaris.

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) Moscow.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) London.

3. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1969.

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

5. Who starred in the film, Persona?
(a) Maria A'delair.
(b) Liv Ullmann.
(c) Sara Martinez.
(d) Elizabeth Poin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes that "cinema's equivocal position between art and ____ accounts for many of the anomalies in the relations between author and public."

2. Who wrote: "Keep awake, keep awake, artist, / Do not give in to sleep . . . / You are eternity's hostage / And prisoner of time"?

3. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?

4. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?

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?

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