- 1. In what year did Alexander Pushkin die?
A) 1812
B) 1820
C) 1843
D) 1837
- 2. Where did the duel in which Pushkin was mortally wounded take place?
A) Saint Petersburg
B) Paris
C) Kiev
D) Moscow
- 3. Who was Pushkin's opponent in the fatal duel?
A) Mikhail Lermontov
B) Ivan Turgenev
C) Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
D) Fyodor Tyutchev
- 4. How many children did Pushkin have at the time of his death?
A) 4
B) 1
C) 2
D) 6
- 5. What nationality was Pushkin's opponent in the fatal duel?
A) French
B) German
C) Russian
D) English
- 6. Which Russian emperor was in power when Pushkin died?
A) Peter the Great
B) Alexander I
C) Paul I
D) Nicholas I
- 7. In what language did Pushkin write most of his works?
A) French
B) German
C) English
D) Russian
- 8. How old was Alexander Pushkin when he died?
A) 45
B) 37
C) 50
D) 30
- 9. Which of Pushkin's works is considered a masterwork of Russian romanticism?
A) Boris Godunov
B) The Queen of Spades
C) The Bronze Horseman
D) Eugene Onegin
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