Q 01/05

Dostoevsky's novels made Saint Petersburg their stage, but in which city was he born?

A) Kiev

B) Moscow

C) Novgorod

D) Kazan

Answer · why

B) Moscow

Moscow: he grew up in the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, where his father was a doctor, and met its destitute patients while playing ...

Q 02/05

Which novel shared a journal with Crime and Punishment during 1866?

A) Anna Karenina

B) Dead Souls

C) Fathers and Sons

D) War and Peace

Answer · why

D) War and Peace

War and Peace was appearing there under its first title, 1805. Dostoevsky had gone to the journal's editor only as a last resort, to ask for an advanc...

Q 03/05

Whom does Raskolnikov kill in Crime and Punishment?

A) A landlord

B) A pawnbroker

C) A moneylending priest

D) A police clerk

Answer · why

B) A pawnbroker

Raskolnikov murders Alyona Ivanovna, an elderly pawnbroker, and then kills her half-sister Lizaveta when she walks in on the crime.

Q 04/05

What weapon does Raskolnikov use in Crime and Punishment?

A) A knife

B) An axe

C) A revolver

D) A candlestick

Answer · why

B) An axe

An axe, taken from the porter's room and hung from a loop he has sewn inside his overcoat, so that he can carry it through the streets unseen.

Q 05/05

Which detective investigates the murders in Crime and Punishment?

A) Porfiry Petrovich

B) Arkady Svidrigailov

C) Dmitri Razumikhin

D) Pyotr Luzhin

Answer · why

A) Porfiry Petrovich

Porfiry Petrovich has no proof, so he plays cat and mouse with Raskolnikov instead, and finally tells him to his face that he knows who the killer is.