- 1. What is Anna Akhmatova's real name?
A) Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
B) Anna Alexandrovna Akhmatova
C) Maria Andreyevna Gorenko
D) Irina Gorenko
- 2. Which poetic movement was Anna Akhmatova associated with?
A) Acmeism
B) Futurism
C) Imagism
D) Symbolism
- 3. Who was Anna Akhmatova's first husband?
A) Boris Pasternak
B) Vladimir Mayakovsky
C) Nikolay Gumilyov
D) Osip Mandelstam
- 4. Which of Akhmatova's works was banned in the Soviet Union for many years?
A) Evening
B) Poem Without a Hero
C) Requiem
D) The White Flock
- 5. Who is considered Anna Akhmatova's literary rival?
A) Alexander Blok
B) Bella Akhmadulina
C) Sergei Yesenin
D) Marina Tsvetaeva
- 6. In what year did Anna Akhmatova receive the Etna-Taormina prize?
A) 1945
B) 1982
C) 1964
D) 1978
- 7. What is the title of Anna Akhmatova's first published book of poetry?
A) The White Flock
B) Rosary
C) Requiem
D) Evening
- 8. Anna Akhmatova was known for writing poetry mostly in which language?
A) French
B) English
C) Russian
D) German
- 9. Anna Akhmatova's poetry was banned during which period in Soviet Russia?
A) Glasnost
B) Stalinist era
C) Khrushchev Thaw
D) Perestroika
- 10. What is the title of the long poem Anna Akhmatova wrote during the siege of Leningrad?
A) The Village
B) Requiem
C) Lot's Wife
D) Poem Without a Hero
- 11. Which famous writer was Anna Akhmatova close friends with during her lifetime?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Leo Tolstoy
- 12. What was the name of Anna Akhmatova's son who was arrested multiple times by the Soviet authorities?
A) Andrei Bely
B) Nikolay Gumilyov
C) Lev Gumilev
D) Joseph Brodsky
- 13. In what year did Anna Akhmatova pass away?
A) 1975
B) 1980
C) 1966
D) 1957
- 14. Anna Akhmatova's poem 'Lot's Wife' is based on a story from which religious text?
A) The Vedas
B) The Torah
C) The Quran
D) The Bible
- 15. In which country was Anna Akhmatova born?
A) Italy
B) Russia
C) Germany
D) France
- 16. Who is considered one of Anna Akhmatova's poetic heirs and was influenced by her work?
A) Bella Akhmadulina
B) Joseph Brodsky
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- 17. Which prestigious literary award did Akhmatova win posthumously in 1964?
A) Booker Prize
B) Etna-Taormina Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Nobel Prize in Literature
- 18. Who was Anna Akhmatova's closest literary friend and fellow Acmeist poet?
A) Marina Tsvetaeva
B) Osip Mandelstam
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Igor Severyanin
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