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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Bollingsworth.
(d) Hemingway.

2. Who wrote the short story upon which Ivan's Childhood was based?
(a) Alexander Kruschev.
(b) Evgeny Zharikov.
(c) Vladimir Bogomolov.
(d) Ivan Bondarev.

3. What film did the woman civil engineer from Leningrad write to Tarkovsky about in the Introduction?
(a) Stalker.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) The Sacrifice.
(d) The Mirror.

4. 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?
(a) God.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Truth.

5. What well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown starred in many popular films and played Patrikey, Cathedral Treasurer, in Audrey Rublyov?
(a) Dimitri Merezhkovsky.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Yuri Nikulin.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What term means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth?

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

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

5. What does Tarkovsky claim "is like a kind of culture medium that is destroyed when it is no longer needed, once the links are severed between the individual personality, and the conditions of existence"?

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