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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War does Tarkovsky describe people flocking to see, in Chapter IV?
(a) Rublyov.
(b) Marx.
(c) Chapayev.
(d) Tolstoy.

2. When was the film Andrei Rublev released?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1966.

3. The structure of which of Tarkovsky's films does he write, "strikes me today as disjointed and incoherent" in Chapter VIII?
(a) Audrey Rublyov.
(b) Ivan's Childhood.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) Stalker.

4. What does Tarkovsky write that all manufacture has to essentially be, in Chapter VI?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Meaningful.
(c) Viable.
(d) Important.

5. In what year did Tarkovsky produce Ivan's Childhood?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which French film director does Tarkovsky write of his admiration for concentration?

2. What German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary does Tarkovsky cite in Chapter V?

3. Posthumously, Tarkovsky was awarded what recognition in the USSR in 1990?

4. What Italian painter of the Venetian school and contemporary of Raphael does Tarkovsky discuss in Chapter II?

5. 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?

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