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

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) Moscow.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) Gorky.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was Tarkovsky born?

3. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?

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

5. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "I realized that I generally came to recognize my own working principles through questioning" what?

(see the answer key)

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