1. Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?

2. What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?

3. What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?

4. Which of the following Vladimir Nabokov works was originally written in his native Russian?

5. What is the name of the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?

6. Which of the following is not a play written by famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov?

7. One of the few outspoken writers to survive Stalin’s regime, which poet was nevertheless prevented by the Soviet government from publishing any work from 1923 to 1940?

8. Which philosophy does Bazarov, the central character of Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, subscribe to?

9. Which 19th-century poet, novelist, and playwright is widely considered the father of modern Russian literature?

10. Which historical pair are the subjects of the novel that “the Master” is writing in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?