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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Macbeth.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

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

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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