Leo Tolstoy Quiz

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

1905

1906

He never won the Nobel Prize

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]

#2. What vice did Tolstoy have?

Gambling

Laziness

Drinking

Lying

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

Kazan University

Moscow University

St. Petersburg University

Tashkent University

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

Father Sergius

Anna Karenina

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

War and Peace

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger

Arthur Schopenhauer

Immanuel Kant

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

Peninsular War

World War I

Crimean War

World War II

#7. 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]

#8. What caused Leo Tolstoy’s death?

An accident

Cholera

Pneumonia

Heart attack

#9. 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

9 August 1828

10 September 1828

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

An execution

A woman who died in childbirth

A carriage accident

A public flogging

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

#2. What vice did Tolstoy have?

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

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

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

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

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

#8. What caused Leo Tolstoy’s death?

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

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