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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?
(a) Ivan Bondarev.
(b) Lieutenant Galtsev.
(c) Alexander Kruschev.
(d) Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov.

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

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

4. When was Tarkovsky born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1951.

5. What was Tarkovsky's first feature film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Killer.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) The Sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tarkovsky writes that, "From the very moment when Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, mankind was doomed to strive endlessly after" what?

2. What book of the Bible is quoted in Chapter II in discussing Tarkovsky's Andrey Rublyov?

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

4. Tarkovsky quotes a woman from where, who wrote to say she'd seen Mirror four times in the previous week, in the Introduction?

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

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