1. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) Stalker.
(d) Nostalgia.

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

3. What word does Tarkovsky refer to as meaning: an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Beauty.

4. The woman's letter discussing words and language in the Introduction cites which Shakespearean play?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Julius Caesar.

5. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?

3. In what year was the film Solaris produced?

4. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?

5. Tarkovsky writes in Chapter II, "Art does not think logically, or formulate a logic of behaviour; it expresses its own postulate of ____."

(see the answer key)

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