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