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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Slow.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Boring.

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

3. 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"?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Modern art.
(c) Mankind.
(d) The Realistic Movement.

4. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1974.

5. Who is the author of, The Lower Depths?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?

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

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