Svetlana Alliluyeva Quiz

Joseph Stalin with daughter Svetlana, 1935. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin’s second wife. In 1967, she caused an international furor when she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States until 1984 when she returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship returned. She later went back to the United States and also spent time in the United Kingdom. – Wikipedia

Svetlana Alliluyeva Quiz Questions

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1. What was Svetlana Alliluyeva’s original name?
a) Galina Ulanova
b) Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina
c) Nadezhda Konstantina Krupskaya
d) Fanny Kaplan

2. When was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) 28 February 1926
b) 16 May 1922
c) 14 August 1928
d) 21 December 1924

3. Where was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) St. Petersburg
b) Yekaterinburg
c) Moscow
d) Tashkent

4. Which university did Svetlana Alliluyeva attend?
a) Kazan
b) Gorky
c) Pushkin
d) Moscow

5. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva teach at Moscow University?
a) 1936-1945
b) 1953-1965
c) 1946-1952
d) 1966-1967

6. Whose ashes did Svetlana Alliluyeva bring to India?
a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
b) Vijayalaxmi Pandit
c) Trilok Nath Kaul
d) Brajesh Singh

7. Who was the American ambassador in Delhi who issued visa to Svetlana Alliluyeva?
a) Chester Bowles
b) William Bullitt
c) Daniel Patrick Moynihan
d) Robert Blackwill

8. What name did Svetlana Alliluyeva take after she married William Peters?
a) Svetlana Isinbayeva
b) Janet Peters
c) Lana Peters
d) Stephanie Peters

9. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva publish The Faraway Music?
a) 1967
b) 1984
c) 1969
d) 1986

10. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva die?
a) 1 January 2001
b) 6 June 2006
c) 7 July 2007
d) 22 November 2011

Svetlana Alliluyeva Quiz Questions with Answers

1. What was Svetlana Alliluyeva’s original name?
b) Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina

2. When was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) 28 February 1926

3. Where was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
c) Moscow

4. Which university did Svetlana Alliluyeva attend?
d) Moscow

5. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva teach at Moscow University?
b) 1953-1965

6. Whose ashes did Svetlana Alliluyeva bring to India?
d) Brajesh Singh

7. Who was the American ambassador in Delhi who issued visa to Svetlana Alliluyeva?
a) Chester Bowles

8. What name did Svetlana Alliluyeva take after she married William Peters?
c) Lana Peters

9. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva publish The Faraway Music?
b) 1984

10. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva die?
d) 22 November 2011

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