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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Stalker.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Killers.

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) State Institute of Cinematography.
(b) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.
(c) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(d) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.

3. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

2. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?

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

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

5. 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?

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