Russia Literature Quiz 4

Questions

1. There Last Summer is one of the lesser known works by which very famous writer?

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

2. Who wrote the theatre worm The Cabal of Hypocrites?

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

3. Who wrote the famous work Family Happiness?

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

4. Who wrote the 1962 novel Pale Fire?

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

5. Who was born with the real last name of Peshkov?

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

6. Who lived from 1890-1960?

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

7. Which of these writer was still alive in the 1960s?

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

8. Which of these was born in 1799?

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

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

   1. Georgy Sviridov
   2. Dimitri Tlomkin
   3. Sergei Prokofiev
   4. Boris Arapov

10. Which of these died in 1940?

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

11. When the Weather Clears is one of the lesser known works by which very famous writer?

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

12. A Sportsman Sketches is a seminal work by whom?

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

13. The Master and the Margarita is the most famous work by whom?

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

14. The House of the Dead is a seminal work by which Russian author?

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

15. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a work by who?

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

16. Speak Memory was a 1951 novel by whom?

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

17. Rudin is a key work by which author?

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

18. On Desert Islands is a famous work by which seminal Russian composer?

    1. Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
    2. Alexander Borodin
    3. Sergei Rachmaninoff
    4. Sergie Prokofiev

19. My Childhood is a seminal work by whom?

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

20. Home of the Gentry is a key work by which author?

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

21. Diabloaid is a famous work by whom?

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

22. Children of the Sun is a seminal work by whom?

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