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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ukraine.
(c) London.
(d) Moscow.

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?
(a) The Mirror.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

2. 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?

3. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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

5. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

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