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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 Cinematography at Moscow.
(b) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
(c) University of Moscow.
(d) Institute of Medicine in Ukraine.

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

3. What was the name of Andrey Tarkovsky's father?
(a) Alexander Tarkovsky.
(b) Arseniy Tarkovsky.
(c) Ignat Tarkovsky.
(d) Innokenity Tarkovsky.

4. What word means a figure in which the name of one thing is used in place of another that is suggested by or associated with it (e.g. the Kremlin for "the Russian government")?
(a) Metonism.
(b) Polylynism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Acronymy.

5. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Retreat.
(d) Trigger.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?

2. What novelist wrote The Possessed?

3. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?

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

5. Where did Tarkovsky study film-making?

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