Russia Literature Quiz 3

Questions

1. The White Guard is a famous novel by whom?

   1. Mikhail Bulgajkov
   2. Leo Tolstoy
   3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
   4. Alexander Pushkin

2. Who wrote the Sevastoppl Sketches?

   1. Leo Tolstoy
   2. Alexander Pushkin
   3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
   4. Mikhail Bulgajkov

3. Who wrote the famous work Doctor Zhivago?

   1. Boris Pasternak
   2. Ivan Turgenev
   3. Leo Tolstoy
   4. Vladimir Nabokov

4. Who wrote the 1899 work "Resurrection"?

   1. Alexander Pushkin
   2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
   3. Mikhail Bulgajkov
   4. Leo Tolstoy

5. Who was a known advocation of Georgism?

   1. Leo Tolstoy
   2. Alexander Pushkin
   3. Mikhail Bulgajkov
   4. Fyodor Dostoevsky

6. Who died in 1837 aged just 37?

   1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
   2. Leo Tolstoy
   3. Mikhail Bulgajkov
   4. Alexander Pushkin

7. Which of these writer was still alive in the 1950s?

   1. Vladimir Nabokov
   2. Leo Tolstoy
   3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
   4. Alexander Pushkin

8. Which of these Russian composers died in 1971?

   1. Alexander Borodin
   2. Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
   3. Igor Stravinsky
   4. Alexander Scriabin

9. Which of these famous Russian composers was born EARLIEST?

   1. Boris Arapov
   2. Arsney Avraamov
   3. Dimitri Tlomkin
   4. Sergei Prokofiev

10. Which of these died in 1910?

    1. Mikhail Bulgajkov
    2. Leo Tolstoy
    3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    4. Alexander Pushkin

11. Vladimir Sirin was a pen name of whom?

    1. Alexander Pushkin
    2. Leo Tolstoy
    3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    4. Vladimir Nabokov

12. A Dead Mans Memoir is s seminal work by whom?

    1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    2. Alexander Pushkin
    3. Leo Tolstoy
    4. Mikhail Bulgajkov

13. The Lower Depths is a seminal work by whom?

    1. Maxim Gorky
    2. Ivan Turgenev
    3. Vladimir Nabokov
    4. Boris Pasternak

14. The Gift is a famous work by whom?

    1. Alexander Pushkin
    2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    3. Leo Tolstoy
    4. Vladimir Nabokov

15. The Brothers Karamazov is a seminal work by which Russian author?

    1. Alexander Pushkin
    2. Mikhail Bulgajkov
    3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    4. Leo Tolstoy

16. Smoke is a key work by which author?

    1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    2. Leo Tolstoy
    3. Vladimir Nabokov
    4. Ivan Turgenev

17. Poor Folk is a seminal work by which Russian author?

    1. Alexander Pushkin
    2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    3. Leo Tolstoy
    4. Mikhail Bulgajkov

18. Ode to Liberty is a famous poem by whom?

    1. Mikhail Bulgajkov
    2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    3. Alexander Pushkin
    4. Leo Tolstoy

19. Look at the Harlequins is a famous work by whom?

    1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    2. Leo Tolstoy
    3. Vladimir Nabokov
    4. Alexander Pushkin

20. Hart of a dog is a famous work by whom?

    1. Mikhail Bulgajkov
    2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    3. Alexander Pushkin
    4. Leo Tolstoy

21. Despair is a famous work by whom?

    1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
    2. Alexander Pushkin
    3. Leo Tolstoy
    4. Vladimir Nabokov

22. Childhood is one of the lesser known works by which very famous writer?

    1. Ivan Turgenev
    2. Vladimir Nabokov
    3. Leo Tolstoy
    4. Boris Pasternak