- 1. What is Anna Akhmatova's real name?
A) Maria Andreyevna Gorenko
B) Irina Gorenko
C) Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
D) Anna Alexandrovna Akhmatova
- 2. Which poetic movement was Anna Akhmatova associated with?
A) Acmeism
B) Imagism
C) Futurism
D) Symbolism
- 3. Who was Anna Akhmatova's first husband?
A) Nikolay Gumilyov
B) Vladimir Mayakovsky
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Osip Mandelstam
- 4. Which of Akhmatova's works was banned in the Soviet Union for many years?
A) Requiem
B) Evening
C) Poem Without a Hero
D) The White Flock
- 5. Who is considered Anna Akhmatova's literary rival?
A) Bella Akhmadulina
B) Marina Tsvetaeva
C) Sergei Yesenin
D) Alexander Blok
- 6. In what year did Anna Akhmatova receive the Etna-Taormina prize?
A) 1982
B) 1964
C) 1945
D) 1978
- 7. What is the title of Anna Akhmatova's first published book of poetry?
A) The White Flock
B) Evening
C) Requiem
D) Rosary
- 8. Anna Akhmatova was known for writing poetry mostly in which language?
A) English
B) French
C) Russian
D) German
- 9. Anna Akhmatova's poetry was banned during which period in Soviet Russia?
A) Stalinist era
B) Perestroika
C) Khrushchev Thaw
D) Glasnost
- 10. What is the title of the long poem Anna Akhmatova wrote during the siege of Leningrad?
A) Poem Without a Hero
B) Lot's Wife
C) Requiem
D) The Village
- 11. Which famous writer was Anna Akhmatova close friends with during her lifetime?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Leo Tolstoy
- 12. What was the name of Anna Akhmatova's son who was arrested multiple times by the Soviet authorities?
A) Lev Gumilev
B) Andrei Bely
C) Nikolay Gumilyov
D) Joseph Brodsky
- 13. In what year did Anna Akhmatova pass away?
A) 1957
B) 1980
C) 1966
D) 1975
- 14. Anna Akhmatova's poem 'Lot's Wife' is based on a story from which religious text?
A) The Torah
B) The Bible
C) The Quran
D) The Vedas
- 15. In which country was Anna Akhmatova born?
A) Russia
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) France
- 16. Who is considered one of Anna Akhmatova's poetic heirs and was influenced by her work?
A) Bella Akhmadulina
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Joseph Brodsky
D) Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- 17. Which prestigious literary award did Akhmatova win posthumously in 1964?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Etna-Taormina Prize
D) Booker Prize
- 18. Who was Anna Akhmatova's closest literary friend and fellow Acmeist poet?
A) Igor Severyanin
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Marina Tsvetaeva
D) Osip Mandelstam
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