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