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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1978.

2. The setting of Ivan's Childhood is during what war?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Russian-Siberian War.
(d) World War II.

3. 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?
(a) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(b) University of Moscow.
(c) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.
(d) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.

4. Of what does Tarkovsky write, "could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities"?
(a) Man.
(b) Literature.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Art.

5. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1959.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Roman poet is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria?

3. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

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

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

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