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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Camera angleship.
(b) Direction.
(c) Artistic approach.
(d) Mise-en-scene.

2. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) Ukraine.
(b) London.
(c) Gorky.
(d) Moscow.

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

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

5. 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."
(a) Point of view.
(b) Morals.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Understanding and love.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?

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

5. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?

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