Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quiz

(Alexander Solzhenitsyn is also known as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn or Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quiz Questions

1) When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn born?
a) 28 June 1914
b) 14 May 1920
c) 7 July 1924
d) 11 December 1918

2) Where was Alexander Solzhenitsyn born?
a) Kislovodsk
b) Yekatinburg
c) St. Petersburg
d) Vladivostok

3) What did Alexander Solzhenitsyn study in Rostov University?
a) Botany and Zoology
b) Mathematics and Physics
c) History and Political Science
d) Economics and Statistics

4) How many years did Alexander Solzhenitsyn spend in prison for criticizing Joseph Stalin?
a) Three
b) Five
c) Seven
d) Eight

5) What is the theme of One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich?
a) One day in a school
b) One day in a labour camp
c) One day in a hospital
d) One day in a farm

6) When did Alexander Solzhenitsyn get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1953
b) 1956
c) 1970
d) 1973

7) When was the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago first published?
a) 1969
b) 1973
c) 1957
d) 1948

U.S. paperback cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn purpose:Illustrate infobox in article Simple wikipedia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

8) When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn stripped of his citizenship and sent to West Germany?
a) 1980
b) 1978
c) 1975
d) 1974

9) Who restored Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s citizenship in 1989?
a) Yuri Andropov
b) Boris Yeltsin
c) Mikhail Gorbachev
d) Vladimir Putin

10) When did Alexander Solzhenitsyn die?
a) 1 March 2007
b) 14 November 2006
c) 3 August 2008
d) 3 April 2005

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quiz Questions with Answers

1) When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn born?
d) 11 December 1918

2) Where was Alexander Solzhenitsyn born?
a) Kislovodsk

3) What did Alexander Solzhenitsyn study in Rostov University?
b) Mathematics and Physics

4) How many years did Alexander Solzhenitsyn spend in prison for criticizing Joseph Stalin?
d) Eight

The Gulag Archipelago (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

5) What is the theme of One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich?
b) One day in a labour camp

6) When did Alexander Solzhenitsyn get Nobel Prize for Literature?
c) 1970

7) When was the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago first published?
b) 1973

8) When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn stripped of his citizenship and sent to West Germany?
d) 1974

9) Who restored Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s citizenship in 1989?
c) Mikhail Gorbachev

10) When did Alexander Solzhenitsyn die?
c) 3 August 2008

 

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