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1. Name the highly revered 19th century writer who is praised in the phrase, "________ is our everything."
2. Which of the following is not considered one of Nikolai Gogol's Petersburg Tales?
3. In Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," how does the character Raskolnikov murder the old pawnbroker?
4. Which of Leo Tolstoy's novels begins with the line, "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"?
5. Name the playwright who penned "Uncle Vanya" and has a surname similar to a character from a 1960s sci-fi television series.
6. Which of the following biblical characters does not appear in "Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov?
7. What 1958 literary award did Boris Pasternak originally accept, but later decline under pressure from the Soviet government?
8. Which Soviet leader gave permission for Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" to be published in order to aid in his own denunciation of Stalin?
9. Name the Russian-born author of "The Gift" and "Pale Fire," who spent much of his life writing in America and Switzerland.
10. How many Russian/Soviet writers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 20th century?
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