Fyodor Dostoyevsky Trivia

1. With which brother does Ivan share the same mother?

From Quiz Ivan Karamazov

Answer: Alexey

Sofia, the second wife of Fyodor, was mother for both Ivan and Alexey. But mentally Ivan is closer to Smerdyakov. Interestingly, Dmitri is also a half-brother to both of them, as well as Smerdyakov, but many readers tend to forget this!

From Quiz Dostoevsky's Minor Works

Answer: labour camp

"Notes from the House of the Dead" is all about life in a Siberian labour camp.

From Quiz Idiot

Answer: Switzerland

It seems like he comes from paradise to this sinful world. Swiss views indeed look like a paradise!

From Quiz Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

Answer: Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov, also known as Rodya by his mother and sister, is hopelessly indebted to his landlady, as Dostoevsky describes in Part One.

From Quiz Fyodor Dostoevsky's "B.K." Novel

Answer: a letter Mitya composed when he was drunk

It was Ivan Fyodorovich who called it thus. It told plainly that whenever Ivan was gone, Mitya would have his chance to murder his father and obtain the three thousand roubles. At first, Katerina Ivanovna was not going to use it, but when Ivan said that Smerdyakov had been the actual murder and he himself was responsible by will, Katerina's love for Ivan got the better of her, and she showed the letter to the defense.

From Quiz Kolya and Friends: Another "B.K." Quiz

Answer: Who founded Troy?

Dardanelov was the teacher who couldn't answer the question about the founders of Troy. Kolya Krassotkin had read it in Smaragdov, a historian whose books his dead father had owned.

From Quiz Crime and Punishment

Answer: Rodya

His full name is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. He is addressed almost equally by his full name, just his last name, and his nickname.

From Quiz The Life and Work of Dostoevsky

Answer: Maxim Gorky

Gorky made the statement in 1905. D.H. Lawrence had less flattering things to say about Dostoevsky, likening him to "the rat, slithering along in hate, in the shadows, and in order to belong to the light, professing love, all love." In 1920 Hesse professed his fear of Dostoevsky's "slavic murkiness." Of the four men listed, only Berdyaev thought highly of Dostoevsky.

From Quiz Ivan Karamazov

Answer: elder Zosima

It happens in the monastery, in which all the family gathers. Zosima is not a sinless person, however. In his young age he took part in the duel and beat his servant, also he repented hereafter. To err is human. :)

From Quiz Dostoevsky's Minor Works

Answer: first person, unreliable and is a main character of the story

"I'm a sick man. I'm a wicked man". The narrator/antihero is also anonymous.

From Quiz Idiot

Answer: about 26-27

The prince later celebrates his 27th birthday (Part III), and invites Rogozhin to it.

From Quiz Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

Answer: pawnbroker

Alyona Ivanovna, frequently referred to as "the old woman," is the first casualty recorded in the novel.

From Quiz Fyodor Dostoevsky's "B.K." Novel

Answer: Lyagavy

Lyagavy abhors his given name, and prefers to be called Gorstkin. Samsonov is the name of the man who told Mitya that Lyagavy would be able to help him obtain money from his father, because Lyagavy was in a dispute about the price of timber with Fyodor Pavlovich. Mitya meets Suhoy Possyolok, who helps him get to Gortskin's abode. He tells Mitya that Gortskin hates being called Lyagavy, and Mitya would be wiser to call him so. It turns out that the whole thing was a ruse: Gortskin really had no business with Mitya's father.

From Quiz Kolya and Friends: Another "B.K." Quiz

Answer: Teucer, Dardanus, Ilius, and Tros

A boy, Kartashov, looked in Smaragdov and found the answer. However, when he told the rest of his schoolfellows, Kolya asked him, "In what sense did they found it? What is meant by founding a city or state? What do they do? Did they go and each lay a brick, do you suppose?" Belgrade is the capital of Yugoslavia. Mary is the Wife of William of Orange, who ruled England under a constitutional monarchy after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. No one knows how Alexander the Great died, but poisoning is one theory.

From Quiz Crime and Punishment

Answer: St. Petersburg

The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, until the very end when Raskolnikov goes to prison in Siberia.

From Quiz The Brothers Karamazov

Answer: Alexey

His full name was Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov.

From Quiz The Life and Work of Dostoevsky

Answer: Ivan Karamazov

In "The Brothers Karamazov" Ivan states that he beleives there is no God, therefore everything is permitted.

From Quiz Ivan Karamazov

Answer: suffering of the innocent children

This "tear of the innocent child" is a rather popular idiom in Russia. There Ivan introduces the classic "Problem of Evil". I suggest that suffering of the innocent adults is equally evil, but, of course, children are more sentimental example.

From Quiz Dostoevsky's Minor Works

Answer: the wife commits suicide

The wife attempts to murder her husband, but is unable to do such a crime. So she commits suicide, holding an icon and jumping from the window.

From Quiz Idiot

Answer: exchange their crosses

Rogozhin gives his golden one, and Myshkin his tin one, so the man, who sold a cross, claimed it to be silver.

From Quiz Crime and Punishment

Answer: A bloody sock

After returning to his apartment, Raskolnikov feels immensely guilty, but he also feels like he needs to remove the evidence. Concerned by a bloody sock, he spreads dirt on it until the blood is not visible. Once his friends come in and Raskolnikov becomes delirious, he constantly refers to the sock and asks Razumikhin to let him see it.

From Quiz Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

Answer: stepmother and stepdaughter

Katerina Ivanovna is afflicted with consumption, while Sofia supports the family financially by selling her body.

From Quiz Fyodor Dostoevsky's "B.K." Novel

Answer: Onion

Grushenka tells Aloysha the story. A woman who was extremely wicked died, and was going to Purgatory. Her guardian angel appealed to God to ask Him what could be done to bring her to Heaven. God asked the angel what good deed the woman had ever done, and He was told that she had given an onion to an old beggar woman. God said to take that same onion, and if the angel could pull her out, she would get to go to heaven. The angel did it, and the onion began unraveling. Other souls grabbed onto the woman who was holding her onion, so that they be pulled out as well. However, the woman maliciously shoved them away, which resulted in the onion snapping. Whenever someone says they gave somebody an onion, they are alluding to this story. Grushenka gives Alyosha an onion by being kind to him.

From Quiz Kolya and Friends: Another "B.K." Quiz

Answer: Zhutchka

Zhutchka is a "rough-haired dog, of medium size," whose coat is lilac-grey. He's blind in his right eye, and his left ear was torn. Perezvon is the name Kolya gives Zhutchka so that he can surprise Ilyusha.

From Quiz Crime and Punishment

Answer: Dounia

Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov is her full name.

From Quiz The Brothers Karamazov

Answer: Agrefena

Her full name was Agrefena Svyetlov, and she was the reason for almost everything bad that happened in the book.

From Quiz The Life and Work of Dostoevsky

Answer: Natasya Filippovna

Natasya Filippovna's painting is carried by Rogozhin. Grushenka is the love interest of both Dimitri and Fyodor Karamazov in "The Brothers Karamazov." Katerina Ivanovna is the consumptive wife of Marmeladov in "Crime and Punishment." Dounia is the sister of Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment."

From Quiz Ivan Karamazov

Answer: bathhouse

Smerdyakov was conceived from rape and his mother died in childbirth. He once said to Marja, that he would have preferred not to be born at all. With this background, it is quite easy to commit patricide (although the reader doesn't know for sure) and suicide!

From Quiz Dostoevsky's Minor Works

Answer: to the utopic sinless planet

He tells the people about different sins, and the sinless world becomes sinful. Dostoevsky was such a pessimist!

From Quiz Idiot

Answer: They are rivals for the same woman

Nastasya Philippovna is in love triangle with them. But Rogozhin's love is destructive and passionate (mania), and Myshkin's is compassionate and spiritual (agape).

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