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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the version of a screenplay that is used during the production of a motion picture?
(a) Post-production script.
(b) Shooting script.
(c) Storyboard.
(d) Production script.

2. 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 Mirror.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Stalker.

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

4. Of what artist does Tarkovsky write when, "he was dying of hunger went off into the mountains with a home-made bow and arrow to shoot some sort of game" in Chapter I?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Grin.
(c) Michail Carwovsky.
(d) Alexander Kruschev.

5. What does Tarkovsky write will still always be a code standing for a logical deduction in the scientist?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Art.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. 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?

4. Tarkovsky writes in the Introduction that the public condemned his film Mirror for being "inadmissibly" what?

5. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

(see the answer key)

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