Contemporary Russian Literature Quiz

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Question 1 / 10

Which award-winning contemporary writer used to be in the Russian special forces?

Dmitri Bykov

Mikhail Shishkin

Zakhar Prilepin

Mikhail Elizarov

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Question 2 / 10

Who or what is Figl-Migl?

Marina Galina's cat

A witch in Nightwatch

An author

A city in Bykov's Living Souls

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Question 3 / 10

A character in Anna Starobinets' An Awkward Age comes to a sticky end after his mind is manipulated by what?

Television

Aliens

Vladimir Putin

Ants

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Question 4 / 10

What is the name of Boris Akunin's famous detective?

Erast Fandorin

Forest Andarin

Ernest Mandarin

Stefan Radorin

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Question 5 / 10

In Vladimir Sorokin's Day of the Oprichnik, who or what is an oprichnik?

A pagan festival

A member of the Orthodox clergy

A member of the secret police

A biscuit

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Question 6 / 10

What links Tatyana Tolstaya's Slynx and Dmitri Glukhovsky's Metro 2033?

They both have heroes called Artyom

They are both set on the Moscow Underground

They are both set in a post-apocalyptic world

They were both made into computer games

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Question 7 / 10

What does the ‘P' in Generation P by Viktor Pelevin stand for?

Pelevin

Pepsi

Putin

Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky

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Question 8 / 10

Olga Slavnikova's Booker-winning 2017 is set in the Riphean mountains, a fictional version of those near which town, Slavnikova's birthplace?

Riga

Moscow

Ekaterinburg

Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky

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Question 9 / 10

Complete the title of Ludmila Ulitskaya's novel : Daniel Stein, …

Murderer

Interpreter

Journalist

Chartered Accountant

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Question 10 / 10

Who is this?

Dmitri Bykov

Lev Rubinshtein

German Sadulaev

Dmitri Glukhovsky

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Contemporary Russian Literature Quiz

Which award-winning contemporary writer used to be in the Russian special forces?

Who or what is Figl-Migl?

A character in Anna Starobinets' An Awkward Age comes to a sticky end after his mind is manipulated by what?

What is the name of Boris Akunin's famous detective?

In Vladimir Sorokin's Day of the Oprichnik, who or what is an oprichnik?

What links Tatyana Tolstaya's Slynx and Dmitri Glukhovsky's Metro 2033?

What does the ‘P' in Generation P by Viktor Pelevin stand for?

Olga Slavnikova's Booker-winning 2017 is set in the Riphean mountains, a fictional version of those near which town, Slavnikova's birthplace?

Complete the title of Ludmila Ulitskaya's novel : Daniel Stein, …

Who is this?

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