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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) 1978.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1986.

2. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?
(a) Ukrainian Institute of Cinematography.
(b) State Institute of Cinematography.
(c) Moscow Institute of Film Studies.
(d) Paris Institute of Cinema Studies.

3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter II that it is indisputable that all art has the goal to explain what?
(a) Meaning of existence.
(b) Evil.
(c) Mankind.
(d) God.

4. In what year was the film Solaris produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1968.

5. 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) Direction.
(b) Artistic approach.
(c) Mise-en-scene.
(d) Camera angleship.

Short Answer Questions

1. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"

2. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

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

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"?

5. 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"?

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