Leo Tolstoy Quiz

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

A carriage accident

A public flogging

An execution

A woman who died in childbirth

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

True

False

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]

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

1906

He never won the Nobel Prize

1905

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]

#4. What vice did Tolstoy have?

Lying

Laziness

Drinking

Gambling

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

World War II

Crimean War

Peninsular War

World War I

#6. 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 September 1828

10 September 1828

9 August 1828

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Immanuel Kant

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger

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

Tashkent University

Moscow University

Kazan University

St. Petersburg University

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

Anna Karenina

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Father Sergius

War and Peace

#10. What caused Leo Tolstoy’s death?

Pneumonia

An accident

Cholera

Heart attack

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

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

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

#4. What vice did Tolstoy have?

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

#6. 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?

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

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

#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 caused Leo Tolstoy’s death?

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