Leo Tolstoy Quiz

#1. What vice did Tolstoy have?

Lying

Gambling

Laziness

Drinking

#2. When Leo Tolstoy was born, Russia followed Julian calendar. His date of birth according to Julian calendar was 28 August 1828. What was his date of birth according to Gregorian calendar?

10 August 1828

9 August 1828

9 September 1828

10 September 1828

#3. Which philosopher did Tolstoy credit his extreme self-discipline?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger

Arthur Schopenhauer

Immanuel Kant

#4. Leo Tolstoy was born in a poor peasant family. True or False?

False

True

He was born in a rich aristocratic Russian family. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility who traced their ancestry to a mythical nobleman named Indris. [Wikipedia]

#5. During which war did Leo Tolstoy command a battery?

World War II

World War I

Crimean War

Peninsular War

#6. Where did Leo Tolstoy study languages and law but returned without degree?

Kazan University

Moscow University

Tashkent University

St. Petersburg University

#7. In which year did Leo Tolstoy receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

1905

He never won the Nobel Prize

1906

1902

He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. That he never won is a major controversy. [Wikipedia]

#8. What caused Leo Tolstoy’s death?

Pneumonia

Heart attack

Cholera

An accident

#9. “Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Which novel of Leo Tolstoy opens with this sentence?

War and Peace

Father Sergius

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Anna Karenina

#10. What did Tolstoy witness in 1857 that would affect him for the rest of his life?

A public flogging

An execution

A carriage accident

A woman who died in childbirth

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#1. What vice did Tolstoy have?

#2. When Leo Tolstoy was born, Russia followed Julian calendar. His date of birth according to Julian calendar was 28 August 1828. What was his date of birth according to Gregorian calendar?

#3. Which philosopher did Tolstoy credit his extreme self-discipline?

#4. Leo Tolstoy was born in a poor peasant family. True or False?

#5. During which war did Leo Tolstoy command a battery?

#6. Where did Leo Tolstoy study languages and law but returned without degree?

#7. In which year did Leo Tolstoy receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

#8. What caused Leo Tolstoy’s death?

#9. “Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Which novel of Leo Tolstoy opens with this sentence?

#10. What did Tolstoy witness in 1857 that would affect him for the rest of his life?

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