Fyodor Dostoevsky
World Literature Landmarks
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821-1881)
9 Questions
Timed: 15 seconds per question
Literature
Les Miserables
Hugo novel (1862), Jean Valjean
World Literature Landmarks
Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes
Creator of Sherlock Holmes; debut novel 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887)
Mystery & Detective Fiction
John Steinbeck
American novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
American Novelists & Their Classics
Death of a Salesman
Miller play (1949), Willy Loman
20th-Century American Drama
Ray Bradbury
American science fiction author (1920-2012)
Dystopian & Speculative Classics
Charlotte Bronte
English novelist (1816-1855)
British Classic Novels
The Odyssey
Homer epic, Odysseus's journey home
Ancient Greek Epics & Drama
Homer
Ancient Greek epic poet (c. 8th century BC)
Ancient Greek Epics & Drama
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain novel (1884), Mississippi River journey
American Novelists & Their Classics
Fyodor Dostoevsky trivia questions
- Which novel by this author features the student Raskolnikov?
- Which famous novel centers on four siblings and their troubled father?
- What punishment shaped his life after a political arrest in the 1840s?
- In which city did he spend most of his life and work?
- Which novel includes Prince Myshkin as a central character?
- What major gambling game did he write about from experience?
- Which of these works was his first widely known novel?
- Which Christian holy book strongly influenced his later writing?
- Which theme appears often in his major novels?