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