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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?
(a) Gorky.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Novosibirsk.

2. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Alexander Blok.
(b) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

3. Tarkovsky writes in his Introduction that he began jotting notes for the first draft of this book how many years prior?
(a) 30.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

4. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?
(a) I Gen, 12. 2-4.
(b) I Cor 15, 1-4.
(c) I Cor 10, 1-8.
(d) I Cor 13, 1-16.

5. A woman from where wrote to ask Tarkovsky, "Thank you for Mirror. My childhood was like that. . . . Only how did you know about it?"
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Gorky.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tarkovsky quote in having said that, "the poet creates harmony out of chaos"?

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

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

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?

5. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?

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