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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The Killer.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) The Sacrifice.

3. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Ignat Daniltsev.
(c) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(d) Larisa Tarkovskaya.

4. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

5. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to the falling action of a narrative in film?

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

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

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. What was the last of Tarkovsky's student films, while at the Institute?

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