In 'The Master and Margarita', what is the name of the enormous black cat in Woland's retinue who walks on two legs and is fond of vodka and chess? — Options: Azazello, Behemoth, Koroviev, Abaddon

Which Russian author worked as a field doctor during a cholera epidemic and famously wrote that 'medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress'? — Options: Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy

Dostoevsky's near-execution in 1849 and subsequent Siberian exile resulted from his involvement with which group? — Options: The Decembrists, The Petrashevsky Circle, The People's Will, The Narodniks

Place these novels in the order they were first published: Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Dead Souls, Fathers and Sons. — Options: Dead Souls → Fathers and Sons → Crime and Punishment → War and Peace, Fathers and Sons → Dead Souls → War and Peace → Crime and Punishment, Dead Souls → Crime and Punishment → Fathers and Sons → War and Peace, Crime and Punishment → Dead Souls → War and Peace → Fathers and Sons

In Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', what is the profession of Konstantin Levin, the character widely seen as Tolstoy's autobiographical alter ego? — Options: An army officer, A landowning farmer, A St. Petersburg civil servant, A provincial doctor

Pushkin's death in 1837 was the result of which event? — Options: A duel with a French officer over his wife's honor, Execution following the Decembrist uprising, A riding accident on his country estate, Tuberculosis contracted during Caucasian exile

In 'The Brothers Karamazov', which brother delivers the philosophical poem known as 'The Grand Inquisitor'? — Options: Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, Smerdyakov

Russian Literature Classics