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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Tantamount.
(b) Possible.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Inevitable.

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

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

4. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Overwhelming.
(b) Slight.
(c) Vague.
(d) Large.

5. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) The Killer.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Ivan's Childhood.
(d) Nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction, "My most fervent wish has always been to be able to speak out in my films, to say everything with total sincerity and without imposing my own ____ on others."

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

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

5. 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?

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