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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Tarkovsky in Chapter I, "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Possible.
(d) Tantamount.

2. How long is the film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 50 seconds.
(c) 10 seconds.
(d) 5 minutes.

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

4. Tarkovsky asserts in Chapter I that the artist should be free to bring his own what to a film?
(a) Story.
(b) Reality.
(c) Quality.
(d) Peace.

5. In what year was Marcel Proust born?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1901.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what film does the Editor's note that is added in the commentary in this edition, appear as it was Tarkovsky's final film?

2. Who directed the film, Persona?

3. Of what author does Tarkovsky write, "the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged with energy by an overriding passion"?

4. What hero dies in the end of Ivan's Childhood?

5. In what year did Tarkovsky die?

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