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