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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?
(a) Finale.
(b) Falling placement.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Ending.

2. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Russian-Siberian War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Cold War.

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

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

5. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?
(a) There Will be No Leave Today.
(b) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(c) Solaris.
(d) The Killers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

4. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

5. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?

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