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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tarkovsky die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1988.

2. In Chapter IV, Tarkovsky writes that "anyone who decides to become a director is risking" what?
(a) Their happiness.
(b) Their past.
(c) The rest of their lives.
(d) Their family security.

3. What French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time is discussed by Tarkovsky in Chapter III?
(a) Bordeaux.
(b) LaSalle.
(c) Millardeaux.
(d) Proust.

4. 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?
(a) Camera angleship.
(b) Direction.
(c) Mise-en-scene.
(d) Artistic approach.

5. The film, The Killers, was based on a short story by whom?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Truman Capote.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the film, L'Argent, released?

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

3. Who wrote the book, The Konostasis?

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

5. 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?

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