Tutorial Questions: Weeks 1-15
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You will be expected to know who wrote the following literary works:

• "Poor Liza"
• "The Queen of Spades"
• Eugene Onegin
• "The Bronze Horsemen"
• The Captain's Daughter
• Dead Souls
• The Inspector General
• "The Overcoat"
• Oblomov
• Fathers and Sons
• War and Peace
• Anna Karenina
• Crime and Punishment
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Cherry Orchard
• Uncle Vanya
• Petersburg
• "The Twelve"
• "The Stranger"
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

You will be expected to know which composer penned the following musical works:

• A Life for the Tsar
• Ruslan and Liudmila
• Eugene Onegin
• Sleeping Beauty
• Swan Lake
• Boris Godunov
• "A Night on Bald Mountain"
• Prince Igor
• Sheherazade
• "Flight of the Bumblebee"
• The Firebird

You will be expected to know the names of the paintings found in the second midterm, as well as who painted them.

You will be expected to be able to answer the following questions (correctly):

To which language family does Russian belong?

For what are Boris and Gleb known?

Who led the Russian forces in the defeat the Livonian Order in Northern Russia in 1242?

What happened between Ivan the Terrible and his son in 1581?

Who is the bogatyr (hero) who defeats Nightingale the Robber?

What old believer Arch-Priest wrote his own "life"?  What is so interesting about this work from the perspective of the history of Russian literature?

In the mouth of what river is St. Petersburg located?

Who was Russia's first great scientist?

In what year did Napoleon's army invade Russia?

What major event in Russian history occurred in December of 1825?  Why didn't Pushkin participate in this event?

What event in Russian history serves as the setting for War and Peace?

What was Dostoevsky's original sentence after his arrest? How was this sentence changed?

In what year were the serfs emancipated?

What Tsar was assassinated  in 1881?

What two schools of thought about Russia's future and role in the world were opposed to one another throughout most of the 19th century?

Name the two genres (or types of writing) in which Chekhov was the most active and influential.

Who was the first leader of the Soviet Union?

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