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The Road to Calvary - Quiz
The Road to Calvary
  • 1. What is the alternative English title for 'The Road to Calvary'?
A) The Great Patriotic War
B) The Revolution
C) Ordeal
D) Sisters
  • 2. Who is the author of the trilogy 'The Road to Calvary'?
A) Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 3. Which novel is the first part of the trilogy?
A) Sisters
B) Gloomy Morning
C) The Eighteenth Year
D) Walking Through Torments
  • 4. When was the novel 'Gloomy Morning' written?
A) 1943
B) 1927–1928
C) 1940–1941
D) 1918–1922
  • 5. In which city is the story set at the beginning of 1914?
A) St. Petersburg
B) Moscow
C) Samara
D) Baltic
  • 6. What is the occupation of Ivan Ilyich Telegin?
A) Officer
B) Lawyer
C) Engineer
D) Poet
  • 7. Who is Katya Bulavin married to at the start of the story?
A) Aleksei Bessonov
B) Vadim Petrovich Roshchin
C) Nikolai Smokovnikov
D) Ivan Ilyich Telegin
  • 8. Which army does Vadim Petrovich Roshchin join?
A) Red Army
B) Volunteer Army
C) Baltic Army
D) Samara Militia
  • 9. What did Aleksey Tolstoy do with his 100,000 ruble Stalin Prize?
A) Used it to fund his return from emigration
B) Bought a house in Samara
C) Donated it to his publishers
D) Transferred it to the Defense Fund
  • 10. What was the name of the tank constructed using the author's prize money?
A) Grozny
B) Victory
C) Stalin
D) Sisters
  • 11. The first part of the trilogy was originally written for what audience?
A) Émigré readers
B) Soviet youth
C) International diplomats
D) The Tsarist government
  • 12. What historic plan is discussed in the report the characters listen to at the end?
A) The Collectivization plan
B) The Five-Year Plan
C) The New Economic Policy
D) GOELRO plan
  • 13. From which city do the Bulavin sisters originally come?
A) Samara
B) Moscow
C) Kiev
D) St. Petersburg
  • 14. In which journals was 'Sisters' first published?
A) Gryadushchaya Rossiya and Sovremennye zapiski
B) Pravda and Izvestia
C) The Baltic Herald
D) The Samara Journal
  • 15. What literary style were the reworked parts of the trilogy written in after 1941?
A) Socialist realism
B) Decadent poetry
C) Romanticism
D) Modernism
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