| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 'War and Peace' author | Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy | 96%
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| Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel about Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in need of money | Crime and Punishment | 85%
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| Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer to win this prize | Nobel Prize for Literature | 73%
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| Author of 'The Government Inspector' (Ревизор - Revizor) | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol | 68%
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| Author of the book above^ | Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin | 65%
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| Count Alexei Vronsky's lover | Anna Karenina | 65%
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| Dmitri Fyodorovich; Ivan Fyodorovich; Alexei Fyodorovich (+ Pavel Fyodorovich) | The Brothers Karamazov | 63%
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| Dostoyevsky was sent here for being a member of The Petrashevsky Circle | Siberia | 62%
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| Humbert Humbert's nymphet | Lolita | 58%
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| What trees are in Madame Lyubov Andreievna Ranevskaya's orchard? | Cherry trees | 54%
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| Who did Tatyana Larina write a letter to? | Eugene Onegin | 47%
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| Maxim Gorky's novel 'The Mother' criticizes what regime? | Tsarist | 47%
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| Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel 'What Is To Be Done?' is written in response to this Ivan Turgenev's novel | Fathers and Sons | 44%
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| Mikhail Bulgakov's novel 'The Master and Margarita' is influenced by what German legend*? | Faust | 43%
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| Name one sister from Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters (Три сeстры - Tri sestry) | Olga, Maria and Irina | 34%
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| Author of a verse play 'Masquerade' and poems 'Demon' and 'Death of the Poet' which is written in reaction to the death of the person above^ | Mikhail Lermontov | 33%
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| a traditional Russian oral epic poem or ballad (generally) | Bylina | 11%
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