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Don Juan (drama) - Quiz
  • 1. Who is the author of the 1862 drama 'Don Juan'?
A) Pyotr Tchaikovsky
B) Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
C) Tirso de Molina
D) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 2. In which magazine was 'Don Juan' first published in 1862?
A) The Romanticist Weekly
B) The Russian Messenger
C) The Moscow Review
D) Literary Gazette
  • 3. Which troupe staged 'Don Juan' for the first time in 1905?
A) Imperial Russian Ballet
B) St. Petersburg Drama Society
C) Adelgeim Brothers
D) Moscow Art Theatre
  • 4. Who composed the incidental music for the play?
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B) Eduard Nápravník
C) Aleksey Tolstoy
D) Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • 5. What is the title of the musical piece Tchaikovsky set to music based on the play?
A) Don Juan's Serenade
B) The Russian Messenger Waltz
C) The Alpine Dream
D) Satan's Aria
  • 6. To whom did Tolstoy dedicate his drama 'Don Juan'?
A) Mikhail Katkov and Ivan Aksakov
B) Goethe and Tirso de Molina
C) Mozart and E. T. A. Hoffmann
D) Boleslav Markevich and Vasily Botkin
  • 7. Why did Tolstoy dedicate the play to E. T. A. Hoffmann?
A) Hoffmann edited the final manuscript
B) Hoffmann was a personal friend of the author
C) Hoffmann wrote the original music for the play
D) Hoffmann saw Don Juan as a seeker of high ideal
  • 8. When did censors deem the production of 'Don Juan' 'unsuitable'?
A) 1862
B) 1905
C) 1858
D) 1891
  • 9. Tolstoy compared his version of Don Juan to which other literary figure?
A) Faust
B) Don Quixote
C) Romeo
D) Hamlet
  • 10. Which author influenced the scenes and characters of 'Don Juan' including the character of Satan?
A) Tirso de Molina
B) Goethe
C) Dostoevsky
D) Pushkin
  • 11. Who did Tolstoy consult in the autumn of 1861 while in Moscow?
A) Eduard Nápravník
B) The Adelgeim Brothers
C) Tchaikovsky
D) Mikhail Katkov and Ivan Aksakov
  • 12. How did Tolstoy characterize the role of love in his drama?
A) A physical desire based on worldly beginnings
B) A source of philandering and chaos
C) A distraction from universal laws
D) A link between the human soul and higher spheres
  • 13. What was Tolstoy's specific demand when submitting his manuscript to The Russian Messenger?
A) That the play be performed immediately
B) That the incidental music be included
C) Not a single word being crossed out
D) That it be dedicated to the Tsar
  • 14. In what year did Tolstoy first get the idea for the play?
A) 1862
B) 1860
C) 1857
D) 1861
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