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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

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

3. 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?
(a) Michail Carwovsky.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Alexander Grin.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

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

5. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Innokenity Tarkovsky.
(b) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(c) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(d) Arseniy Tarkovsky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

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

5. 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?

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