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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Alexander Kruschev.
(b) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.
(c) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(d) Ivan Bondarev.

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

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

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

5. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to" what?

2. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

3. In what year was Tarkovsky's film Mirror released?

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. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?

(see the answer key)

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