A new test for lovers of the Russian literature! This time our quiz is dedicated to Tolstoy’s life and work. Good luck!
How well do you know Tolstoy?
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Question 1 |
Leo Tolstoy was born in
A | 1818 |
B | 1828 |
C | 1820 |
D | 1842 |
Question 2 |
Which work was written first?
A | War and Peace |
B | Anna Karenina |
C | Sevastopol Sketches |
D | The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Question 3 |
Tolstoy participated in
A | The Crimean War |
B | The First World War |
C | The Napoleonic War |
D | The Japanese War |
Question 4 |
Anna Karenina, the main character of one of his novels, was
A | a little girl |
B | a widow |
C | an old lady |
D | a married woman |
Question 5 |
Which is NOT correct?
A | Tolstoy had 13 children, but some of them died in childhood |
B | Tolstoy got married 3 times |
C | His parents died when he was young |
D | Tolstoy was excommunicated by the Orthodox Church |
Question 6 |
Anatole Kuragin is a character of
A | Anna Karenina |
B | War and Peace |
C | Hadji Murat |
D | Resurrection |
Question 7 |
Tolstoy studied at
A | Moscow State University |
B | Nizhny Novgorod University |
C | Ekaterinburg University |
D | Kazan University |
Question 8 |
Which is NOT a Tolstoy's work
A | Notes of a Hunter |
B | The Kreutzer Sonata |
C | The Cossacks |
D | What I believe |
Question 9 |
Tolstoy is also famous for
A | his sculptures |
B | his paintings |
C | his pedagogical theories |
D | his technical inventions |
Question 10 |
"Father Sergius" is a
A | short story |
B | novel |
C | poem |
D | essay |
Question 11 |
Tolstoy died of
A | pneumonia |
B | tuberculosis |
C | gangrene |
D | cancer |
Question 12 |
In "War and Peace" Natasha marries
A | Andrey Bolkovskiy |
B | Anatole Kuragin |
C | Pierre Bezukhov |
D | Napoleon |
Question 13 |
Which fact is NOT correct?
A | Tolsoy was in Bashkiria |
B | Tolstoy met Mikhail Lermontov |
C | Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana |
D | Tolstoy participated in the Caucasian War |
Question 14 |
Andrey Bolkonskiy, one of the main characters of "War and Peace", was wounded
A | in the battle of Austerlitz |
B | in the battle of Leipzig |
C | in the battle of Smolensk |
D | in the battle of Paris |
Question 15 |
One of the main postulates of Tolstoy's philosophical theory was
A | resistance to evil |
B | resistance to evil by force |
C | nonresistance to people |
D | nonresistance to evil by force |
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