Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Quiz
  • 1. In which city was Fyodor Dostoyevsky born?
A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) St. Petersburg
D) Minsk
  • 2. Which novel is considered one of Dostoyevsky's masterpieces?
A) Crime and Punishment
B) War and Peace
C) Anna Karenina
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 3. Which literary movement is Dostoyevsky often associated with?
A) Naturalism
B) Symbolism
C) Russian Realism
D) Romanticism
  • 4. What philosophical ideology did Dostoyevsky criticize in his novel 'Demons'?
A) Hedonism
B) Nihilism
C) Utilitarianism
D) Existentialism
  • 5. Which publication marks the beginning of Dostoyevsky's career as a writer?
A) Madame Bovary
B) Poor Folk
C) Crime and Punishment
D) War and Peace
  • 6. In what year did Dostoyevsky pass away?
A) 1895
B) 1881
C) 1903
D) 1870
  • 7. Which character from Dostoyevsky's novels commits a murder to test his theory of extraordinary individuals?
A) Alyosha Karamazov
B) Rodion Romanovich
C) Raskolnikov
D) Stavrogin
  • 8. What was the title of Dostoyevsky's last novel?
A) The Brothers Karamazov
B) Crime and Punishment
C) The Idiot
D) Anna Karenina
  • 9. In which year was Fyodor Dostoevsky born?
A) 1801
B) 1831
C) 1841
D) 1821
  • 10. What is the name of the Russian military institute that Dostoevsky attended after leaving school?
A) Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute
B) Saint Petersburg Naval Academy
C) Russian State Pedagogical University
D) Imperial Moscow University
  • 11. Which of Dostoevsky's novels is considered one of the first works of existentialist literature?
A) Demons
B) Crime and Punishment
C) Notes from Underground
D) The Idiot
  • 12. What was Dostoevsky's sentence for his involvement with the Petrashevsky Circle?
A) Life imprisonment without parole
B) Death, commuted to four years in a Siberian hard labour camp
C) Exile to Siberia without labor
D) Execution
  • 13. Which novel was inspired by Dostoevsky's time in the Siberian hard labour camp?
A) The House of the Dead
B) Crime and Punishment
C) The Idiot
D) Demons
  • 14. Which philosopher referred to Dostoevsky as 'the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn'?
A) Friedrich Nietzsche
B) Albert Camus
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 15. In which year was Dostoevsky's novel 'The Brothers Karamazov' published?
A) 1875
B) 1866
C) 1872
D) 1880
  • 16. What addiction did Dostoevsky develop that led to financial hardship?
A) Alcoholism
B) Smoking
C) Drug abuse
D) Gambling
  • 17. How many novels did Fyodor Dostoevsky write?
A) Ten
B) Fifteen
C) Thirteen
D) Eighteen
  • 18. Which of the following authors was influenced by Dostoevsky's work?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Ivan Turgenev
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Mikhail Bulgakov
  • 19. What was the original religion of Dostoevsky's paternal ancestor Aslan Chelebi-Murza before converting to Christianity?
A) Islam
B) Orthodox Christianity
C) Buddhism
D) Judaism
  • 20. In which year did Dostoevsky's ancestor Danilo Irtishch receive lands in the Pinsk region?
A) 1828
B) 1509
C) 1809
D) 1389
  • 21. What was the profession of Dostoevsky's immediate ancestors on his mother's side?
A) Priests
B) Merchants
C) Nobles
D) Military doctors
  • 22. Which institution did Mikhail Dostoevsky enroll in 1809?
A) St. Petersburg Conservatory
B) Imperial Russian Army Academy
C) Moscow University
D) Moscow's Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy
  • 23. In what year was Mikhail Dostoevsky appointed a senior physician?
A) 1818
B) 1809
C) 1819
D) 1828
  • 24. How far was the family's summer estate, Darovoye, from Moscow?
A) 300 km (190 miles)
B) About 150 km (100 miles)
C) 50 km (30 miles)
D) 500 km (310 miles)
  • 25. Who among Dostoevsky's siblings wrote memoirs about the family history?
A) Nikolai
B) Vera
C) Andrei
D) Varvara
  • 26. What was a notable struggle in Nikolai Dostoevsky's life?
A) He had financial difficulties.
B) He faced legal issues.
C) He struggled with alcoholism.
D) He dealt with health problems.
  • 27. Which sibling of Dostoevsky married a doctor?
A) Vera
B) Yelizaveta
C) Aleksandra
D) Lyubov
  • 28. Who introduced Dostoevsky to literature at an early age?
A) His nanny, Alena Frolovna
B) His mother Maria
C) A French tutor
D) His father Mikhail
  • 29. Which Russian writer influenced Dostoevsky significantly?
A) Alexander Pushkin
B) Gavrila Derzhavin
C) Nikolai Gogol
D) Mikhail Lermontov
  • 30. Which boarding school did Dostoevsky attend after his father sent him to a French school?
A) St. Petersburg Academy
B) Tula Governorate School
C) Chermak boarding school
D) Moscow State University
  • 31. Which work reflects Dostoevsky's experience at the Moscow school?
A) Notes from Underground
B) The Adolescent
C) Crime and Punishment
D) The Brothers Karamazov
  • 32. What was Dostoevsky's mother's cause of death?
A) heart attack
B) murder
C) apoplectic stroke
D) tuberculosis
  • 33. What nickname did Dostoevsky earn due to his reclusiveness and interest in religion?
A) Brother of the Church
B) Saint Fyodor
C) The Recluse
D) Monk Photius
  • 34. What was the official cause of Dostoevsky's father's death?
A) murder
B) apoplectic stroke
C) heart attack
D) tuberculosis
  • 35. Who accused the serfs of murdering Dostoevsky's father?
A) Dr. Rizenkampf
B) Mikhail Dostoevsky
C) Adolph Totleben
D) Pavel Khotiaintsev
  • 36. What rank did Dostoevsky obtain after passing his exams?
A) captain
B) engineer cadet
C) lieutenant engineer
D) general
  • 37. Who characterized Dostoevsky as good-natured but sometimes abusively moody?
A) Dr. Rizenkampf
B) Mikhail Dostoevsky
C) Adolph Totleben
D) Konstantin Trutovsky
  • 38. Which novel did Dostoevsky translate that was published in 1843?
A) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
B) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
C) Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
D) Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
  • 39. Who introduced Dostoevsky's first novel to Vissarion Belinsky?
A) Aleksey Pleshcheyev
B) Mikhail Petrashevsky
C) Nikolay Nekrasov
D) Dmitry Grigorovich
  • 40. Which novel did Dostoevsky plan since 1846 but never complete?
A) The Double
B) Poor Folk
C) Notes of the Fatherland
D) Netochka Nezvanova
  • 41. In which work did the psychological theme of dreaming first appear?
A) "The Brothers Karamazov"
B) "Notes from Underground"
C) "Crime and Punishment"
D) "White Nights"
  • 42. Who said that reading Dostoevsky is like a 'glimpse into the havoc'?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Hermann Hesse
D) Knut Hamsun
  • 43. What was notable about one of Dostoevsky's eyes?
A) It was smaller than the other eye
B) The pupil was so big that you could not see its color
C) It had a green tint from illness
D) It was always closed due to an injury
  • 44. In which magazine was A Writer's Diary published beginning on 1 January 1873?
A) Notes of the Fatherland
B) A Writer's Diary
C) The Citizen
D) Russian Messenger
  • 45. In what year was an olive-green postage stamp dedicated to Dostoevsky released in the Soviet Union?
A) 1956
B) 1997
C) 1971
D) 1981
  • 46. Who commuted the death sentence of Dostoevsky and his fellow prisoners?
A) Ivan Nabokov
B) Count Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
C) Tsar Nicholas I
D) Prince Pavel Gagarin
  • 47. Which literary movement does Dostoevsky influence, known for its focus on individual existence and freedom?
A) Realism
B) Existentialism
C) Romanticism
D) Naturalism
  • 48. What did Dostoevsky claim he would choose over truth, according to a letter from January 1854?
A) The New Testament
B) Christ
C) Russian literature
D) Orthodox Christianity
  • 49. What was Anna's sister's name who died on 1 May 1872?
A) Vsevolod Solovyov
B) Anna Dostoevsky
C) Maria Svatkovskaya
D) Terty Filipov
  • 50. Which city did Dostoevsky and his wife visit where he sought inspiration for writing?
A) Berlin
B) Karlsruhe
C) Frankfurt
D) Dresden, at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
  • 51. What illness was Dostoevsky diagnosed with in Bad Ems?
A) Typhus
B) Tuberculosis
C) Acute catarrh
D) Malaria
  • 52. Which movement did Dostoevsky discover in the 1860s that aimed to establish an open state modeled on Peter the Great's Russia?
A) Slavophilism
B) Pochvennichestvo
C) Westernization
D) Nihilism
  • 53. What parable did Dostoevsky request to be read to his children before he died?
A) The Sower
B) The Prodigal Son
C) The Good Samaritan
D) The Lost Sheep
  • 54. Which ideology did Dostoevsky support that was influenced by the Ottoman occupations of Eastern Europe?
A) Catholicism
B) Pro-Western
C) Atheistic socialism
D) Pan-Slavic
  • 55. What was the name of Dostoevsky's son born on 16 July?
A) Vladimir
B) Arkady
C) Alexey
D) Fyodor
  • 56. Where did Dostoevsky make a final visit to a gambling hall?
A) Florence
B) Geneva
C) Wiesbaden
D) Berlin
  • 57. What was the name of the publishing company established by Dostoevsky?
A) Dostoevsky Publishing Company
B) Notes of the Fatherland
C) Citizen Press
D) Russian Messenger Publishing
  • 58. Where did Dostoevsky and Isaeva first get married?
A) Semipalatinsk
B) Kuznetsk
C) Saint Petersburg
D) Barnaul
  • 59. Who was the admirer of Dostoevsky's books that he met around November 1854?
A) Nikolay Strakhov
B) Lieutenant-Colonel Belikhov
C) General Eduard Totleben
D) Baron Alexander Egorovich Wrangel
  • 60. When did Dostoevsky and Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva get married?
A) 14 February 1854
B) 15 March 1858
C) 1 January 1856
D) 7 February 1857
  • 61. When did Fyodor Dostoevsky return to Russia?
A) January 1872
B) March 1873
C) September 1874
D) July 1871
  • 62. Which archbishop's works strengthened Dostoevsky's beliefs?
A) Johannes Hübner
B) Herzen
C) Dmitri Rostovsky
D) Grigoriev
  • 63. Who denounced the members of the Petrashevsky Circle to the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
A) Nikolay Speshnev
B) Mikhail Bakunin
C) Ivan Liprandi
D) Count Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
  • 64. Which literary form did Dostoevsky NOT write in?
A) Short stories
B) Essays
C) Plays
D) Novels
  • 65. What position was Dostoevsky elected to within the Slavic Benevolent Society?
A) President
B) Vice-president
C) Secretary
D) Treasurer
  • 66. What did Dostoevsky revive his faith by looking at frequently in Semipalatinsk?
A) Catholic relics
B) The stars
C) Orthodox icons
D) The Bible
  • 67. In which journal was 'The House of the Dead' first published?
A) Epoch
B) Vremya
C) Sovremennik
D) Russky Mir
  • 68. In which city did Dostoevsky first meet Alexander Herzen?
A) Cologne
B) London
C) Paris
D) Berlin
  • 69. Which novel did Dostoevsky finish on 26 November 1872?
A) Notes from Underground
B) Crime and Punishment
C) Demons
D) The Adolescent
  • 70. In which city did Dostoevsky complete The Idiot?
A) Dresden
B) Geneva
C) Florence
D) Vienna
  • 71. Which author stated in A Moveable Feast that Dostoevsky's work contained things so true they changed the reader?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) James Joyce
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Franz Kafka
  • 72. What was the name of Dostoevsky's son who died after a severe epileptic seizure?
A) Ivan
B) Paul
C) Alyosha
D) Sergey
  • 73. What mineral spa town did the Dostoevsky family spend time in early 1872?
A) Saint Petersburg
B) Staraya Russa
C) Bad Ems
D) Moscow
  • 74. Which of Dostoevsky's pre-marriage romantic interests was described as a 'femme fatale'?
A) Avdotya Panaeva
B) Polina Suslova
C) Aleksandra Ivanovna Schubert
D) Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya
  • 75. What was Dostoevsky diagnosed with during his fourth visit to Ems?
A) Early-stage pulmonary emphysema
B) Epilepsy
C) Heart disease
D) Lung cancer
  • 76. Which author called Dostoevsky his 'blood-relative'?
A) Franz Kafka
B) Virginia Woolf
C) James Joyce
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 77. Who did Dostoevsky ask to help him financially after his release?
A) Alexander Egorovich Wrangel
B) Mikhail
C) Pyotr Semyonov
D) Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva
  • 78. What is the title of Dostoevsky's book compiled from pieces of his periodical work?
A) Dostoevsky's Essays and Stories
B) A Writer's Diary
C) Society, Religion, Politics, and Ethics
D) The Diary of a Writer
  • 79. On what date was Fyodor Dostoevsky released from prison?
A) 1 January 1855
B) 15 March 1856
C) 14 February 1854
D) 7 June 1862
  • 80. Which theme is NOT prominently explored in Dostoevsky's works?
A) Space exploration
B) Poverty
C) Suicide
D) Morality
  • 81. Where did Dostoevsky move to serve in the Siberian Army Corps?
A) Semipalatinsk
B) Kuznetsk
C) Tver
D) Barnaul
  • 82. Which author praised Dostoevsky's prose for shattering the Victorian novel with its lack of imagination and violence?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Franz Kafka
D) James Joyce
  • 83. Which society elected Dostoevsky to its honorary committee, alongside Victor Hugo and Leo Tolstoy?
A) Russian Academy of Sciences
B) Saint Petersburg Literary Circle
C) Slavic Benevolent Society
D) Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale
  • 84. What book did Dostoevsky read that emphasized a sentimental version of Christianity?
A) The Book of Job
B) Die Stunden der Andacht
C) One Hundred and Four Sacred Stories from the Old and New Testaments
D) The Bible
  • 85. How long did it take Dostoevsky to complete The Gambler?
A) 15 days
B) 26 days
C) 45 days
D) 30 days
  • 86. Where did Dostoevsky lose much money at the roulette table?
A) Geneva
B) Baden-Baden
C) Milan
D) Vevey
  • 87. Which Norwegian novelist wrote about Dostoevsky's overwhelming psychological sense?
A) Jo Nesbø
B) Sigrid Undset
C) Knut Hamsun
D) Henrik Ibsen
  • 88. Who called Dostoevsky a 'great religious writer'?
A) Friedrich Nietzsche
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Albert Einstein
  • 89. In which year did Dostoevsky's wife Maria die?
A) 1863
B) 1864
C) 1865
D) 1857
  • 90. Who influenced Dostoevsky's political progression to conservatism?
A) Maykov
B) Vladimir Solovyov
C) Konstantin Pobedonostsev
D) Terty Filipov
  • 91. When was Dostoevsky's son Alexey born?
A) 1 May 1872
B) 16 July 1871
C) 26 November 1872
D) 10 August 1875
  • 92. What was the title of Dostoevsky's only work completed in prison?
A) A Little Hero
B) Uncle's Dream
C) The Village of Stepanchikovo
D) Notes from Underground
  • 93. What was the name of Dostoevsky's stepson?
A) Mikhail
B) Alexander
C) Nikolay
D) Pasha
  • 94. Which autobiographical element is frequently used in Dostoevsky's works?
A) Autobiographical or semi-autobiographical details
B) Detailed historical events unrelated to his life
C) Purely imaginative fantasy worlds
D) Fictionalized accounts of other authors' lives
  • 95. Who was Dostoevsky's second love that he met in Paris?
A) Anna Snitkina
B) Polina Suslova
C) Maria Dmitrievna Isaeva
D) Apollinaria Prokofievna Suslova
  • 96. What illness caused the death of Dostoevsky's first child?
A) Typhoid fever
B) Pneumonia
C) Cholera
D) Diphtheria
  • 97. Which famous writer did Dostoevsky meet in several salons in Saint Petersburg?
A) Fyodor Tyutchev
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Ivan Turgenev
  • 98. Who is the illegitimate child of Versilov featured in The Adolescent?
A) Alexey Karamazov
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Arkady Dolgoruky
D) Raskolnikov
  • 99. Where did Dostoevsky and Snitkina marry?
A) Berlin
B) Frankfurt
C) Trinity Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
D) Dresden
  • 100. Who wrote the novel Oru Sankeerthanam Pole, which deals with Dostoevsky's life and his love affair with Anna?
A) Perumbadavam Sreedharan
B) Knut Hamsun
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) J. M. Coetzee
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