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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A member of what institute sent Tarkovsky a notice published in their wall newspaper stating that the appearance of Tarkovsky's film, Mirror, aroused wide interest in his institute as it did all over Moscow?
(a) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(b) University of Moscow.
(c) Institute of Cinematography at Moscow.
(d) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.

2. Who wrote in, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form", that montage is "the nerve of cinema"?
(a) Andrey Rublyov.
(b) Luis Bunuel.
(c) Donatas Banionis.
(d) Sergei Eisenstein.

3. When was the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, produced?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1880.
(d) l951.

4. Tarkovsky concludes the Introduction by stating, "The corpus of theory relating to cinema is still" what?
(a) Vague.
(b) Slight.
(c) Large.
(d) Overwhelming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first of Tarkovsky's student films?

2. Whose ring bore the inscription, 'All will pass'?

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

4. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?

5. When was Tarkovsky born?

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