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