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