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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Marx.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Rublyov.
(d) Chapayev.

2. Which role did Larisa Tarkovskaya play in the film, The Mirror?
(a) Narrator.
(b) Natalia.
(c) Nadezhda.
(d) Old Woman.

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Production script.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Storyboard.
(d) Post-production script.

4. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) State Institute of Cinematography.
(b) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(c) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.
(d) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.

5. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Marx.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Eisenstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

4. What does Tarkovsky claim to do about a film once he has completed working on it?

5. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?

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