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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Bollingsworth.

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

3. 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?
(a) Two stagnations.
(b) Two conflicts.
(c) Two missions.
(d) Two pauses.

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

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

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 was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

5. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?

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