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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Peace.
(b) Story.
(c) Quality.
(d) Reality.

3. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?
(a) Slow.
(b) Boring.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Artistic.

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

5. Who was cast as the Narrator in the film Mirror?
(a) Margarita Terekhova.
(b) Innokentiy Smoktunovsky.
(c) Larisa Tarkovskaya.
(d) Ignat Daniltsev.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

2. What Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

3. Tarkovsky claims that _______ and beauty are contained within each other.

4. What does Tarkovsky write "has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake"?

5. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

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