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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Story.
(b) Peace.
(c) Reality.
(d) Quality.

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. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Innokenity Tarkovsky.
(d) Alexander Tarkovsky.

4. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) Stalker.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) The Sacrifice.

5. 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?
(a) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(b) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(c) University of Moscow.
(d) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

2. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

3. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

4. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?

5. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

(see the answer key)

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