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