- 1. What is Anna Akhmatova's real name?
A) Irina Gorenko
B) Maria Andreyevna Gorenko
C) Anna Alexandrovna Akhmatova
D) Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
- 2. Which poetic movement was Anna Akhmatova associated with?
A) Acmeism
B) Imagism
C) Symbolism
D) Futurism
- 3. Who was Anna Akhmatova's first husband?
A) Vladimir Mayakovsky
B) Nikolay Gumilyov
C) Osip Mandelstam
D) Boris Pasternak
- 4. Which of Akhmatova's works was banned in the Soviet Union for many years?
A) Evening
B) Requiem
C) The White Flock
D) Poem Without a Hero
- 5. Who is considered Anna Akhmatova's literary rival?
A) Marina Tsvetaeva
B) Bella Akhmadulina
C) Sergei Yesenin
D) Alexander Blok
- 6. In what year did Anna Akhmatova receive the Etna-Taormina prize?
A) 1982
B) 1964
C) 1978
D) 1945
- 7. What is the title of Anna Akhmatova's first published book of poetry?
A) Requiem
B) Rosary
C) The White Flock
D) Evening
- 8. Anna Akhmatova was known for writing poetry mostly in which language?
A) English
B) German
C) French
D) Russian
- 9. In what year did Anna Akhmatova pass away?
A) 1980
B) 1975
C) 1966
D) 1957
- 10. Which prestigious literary award did Akhmatova win posthumously in 1964?
A) Booker Prize
B) Etna-Taormina Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Nobel Prize in Literature
- 11. What was the name of Anna Akhmatova's son who was arrested multiple times by the Soviet authorities?
A) Andrei Bely
B) Nikolay Gumilyov
C) Joseph Brodsky
D) Lev Gumilev
- 12. Anna Akhmatova's poem 'Lot's Wife' is based on a story from which religious text?
A) The Bible
B) The Quran
C) The Vedas
D) The Torah
- 13. Which famous writer was Anna Akhmatova close friends with during her lifetime?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Anton Chekhov
- 14. In which country was Anna Akhmatova born?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) Russia
- 15. Who was Anna Akhmatova's closest literary friend and fellow Acmeist poet?
A) Marina Tsvetaeva
B) Osip Mandelstam
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Igor Severyanin
- 16. Who is considered one of Anna Akhmatova's poetic heirs and was influenced by her work?
A) Bella Akhmadulina
B) Yevgeny Yevtushenko
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Joseph Brodsky
- 17. What is the title of the long poem Anna Akhmatova wrote during the siege of Leningrad?
A) Poem Without a Hero
B) Requiem
C) Lot's Wife
D) The Village
- 18. Anna Akhmatova's poetry was banned during which period in Soviet Russia?
A) Stalinist era
B) Glasnost
C) Khrushchev Thaw
D) Perestroika
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