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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 15.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

2. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Novosibirsk.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Moscow.

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 pauses.
(c) Two missions.
(d) Two conflicts.

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Absolute laws.
(c) Governmental control.
(d) Regulation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?

2. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

3. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

4. 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?

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

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