The Gogol quiz: 13 questions by Andriy

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Nikolai Gogol's father was a great-grandson of Ostap Hohol (Остап Гоголь), a colonel of Ukrainian Cossack troops at the times of ...

Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Petro Doroshenko
Ivan Mazepa
Taras Bulba-Borovets

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Which story is NOT from "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"?

"Sorochintsï Fair"
"May Night, or The Drowned Maiden"
"A Bewitched Place"
"Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt"
"St. John's Eve"
"The Old World Landowners"
"The Lost Letter"
"Christmas Eve"

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The father of Nikolai Gogol, Vasyl Hohol-Yanovsky, was 14 years older his wife, Maria, - how old was she when they got married?

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24

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Which story is NOT from "Mirgorod"?

"Taras Bulba"
"A Terrible Vengeance"
"Viy"
"The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich"

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The first work of Gogol was a Romantic poem, published under the name of "V. Alov" - what was the title of the work?

"Ode to Ukraine"
"Hans Küchelgarten"
"Hans und Greta"
"Considerations of Mazepa"

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"Diary of a Madman" is ...

the only one of Gogol's works written in first person.
based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin.
known as one of his most humorous stories.
one of Gogol's most demonic tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as "St. John's Eve".

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There is a chapter titled "The Christian Goes Forward" in the "Selected Passages from Correspondence with his Friends" by Nikolai Gogol.

True (it's a chapter #12)
False (there are no titled chapters in the book)

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Who of the following characters is NOT from "Dead Souls"?

Manilov
Plyushkin
Korobochka
Nozdryov
Piskaryov
Sobakevich
Chichikov
Captain Kopeikin

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Who of the following authors did NOT know Gogol personally?

Prosper Merimee
Aleksandr Pushkin
Taras Shevchenko
Adam Mickiewicz

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Whose nose did the barber Ivan Yakovlevich find in his bread?

Akaky Akakievich's
Chichikov's
Pythagoras Chertokutsky's
Major Kovalyov's

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Nikolai Gogol wanted to be a professor of Ukrainian history and tried to obtain an appointment to the history department at Kyiv University.

True
False

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Which of the following words do NOT belong to Nikolai Gogol?

"Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash".
"I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer."
"Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless."
"A clear winter night descended. The stars peered down. The moon majestically sailed into the sky to give light to all the good people around the world, so that they could sing Christmas carols cheerfully and raise glory to Christ."

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Before burning the second part of Dead Souls, Gogol had burned his unpublished (based on the history of Ukrainian Cossacks) drama “A shaved moustache”.

True
False

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