140th anniversary of Aleksey Tolstoy's birth

1. Which of the writers represented in the portraits is Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy?

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Answer explanation

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

2. Select the years of Aleksey Tolstoy's life.

• 1883 – 1945

• 1880 – 1944

• 1889 – 1941

3. What books were written by A. Tolstoy?

• Historical, journalistic, science fiction novels

• Fiction, detective novels

• Political science, non-fiction novels

4. By vocation Aleksey Tolstoy is a writer, and by the graduation he received in his youth he is...?

• Teacher

• Engineer

• Doctor

• Lawyer

Answer explanation

Aleksey Nikolayevich studied at the Samara Real School, then at the St. Petersburg Machine-Building Institute and the Higher Technical School in Dresden.

He is an engineer by profession.

5. What award did Tolstoy receive three times?

• Nobel Prize for Literature

• Stalin Prize, 1^st degree

• Pulitzer Prize

6. What was A. Tolstoy doing during military service through the First World War?

• He was an officer in the Urals

• He was a political agitator

• He was a war correspondent

• He wasn't involved

Answer explanation

When the First World War began, Tolstoy was released from service due to health problems and sent to the front as a war correspondent from the newspaper "Russian Vedomosti".

7. Which nickname Tolstoy's got?

• Red Count

• Commissioner of writing

• Emigrant from nobles

Answer explanation

In Soviet times, A. Tolstoy was called the "red count". A nobleman by birth, at first he categorically did not accept the October Revolution of 1917 and emigrated abroad. However, a few years later he returned to Russia and became one of Stalin's most beloved writers.

8. Select the works written by Aleksey Tolstoy.

• “Mumu”,

  “The Captain's Daughter”,

  “The Catcher in the Rye”

• “Aelita”,

  “The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino”,

  “Nikita's Childhood”

• “Professor Dowell's Head”,

  “Anna Karenina”,

  “1984”

9. Which work of Tolstoy is most popular among kids?

• “Aelita”

• “Nikita's Childhood”

• “The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino”

Answer explanation

Aleksey Tolstoy gained great popularity among kids thanks to the book "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino", which was written based on the book "Pinocchio" by the Italian author Carlo Collodi.

10. Translated from the Tuscan dialect, the name "Pinocchio" means "pine nut", and what does the name "Buratino" mean?

• Wooden nose

• Long nose

• Wooden doll

• Wooden boy

Answer explanation

The name - Buratino in Italian "burattino" means "wooden doll".