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