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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The two supporting characters in Nostalgia are named Domenico and what?
(a) Maria.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Eugenia.

2. Trokovsky writes in Chapter III that cinema is said to be a _____ art.
(a) Composite.
(b) Determined.
(c) Expansive.
(d) Communicative.

3. Tarkovsky writes of his film, Ivan's Childhood, "The stuff of the narrative was not the heroics of reconnaissance operations, but the interval between" what?
(a) Two stagnations.
(b) Two missions.
(c) Two pauses.
(d) Two conflicts.

4. What film did Tarkovsky produce in 1961?
(a) The Steamroller and the Violin.
(b) Andrei Rublev.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Solaris.

5. Whom does Tarkovsky write about in Chapter II who believed the poet had the gift of prophecy?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Effendi Kapiyev.
(c) Alexander Dovzhenko.
(d) Alexander Blok.

Short Answer 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?

2. For how long did Tarkovsky work on his first feature film?

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

4. Where was the film, Nostalgia, shot?

5. When was the film, Mirror, released?

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