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Kolya and Friends: Another "B.K." Quiz


Eighty percent of this quiz is about Kolya Krassotkin and the other schoolboys in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, "The Brother's Karamazov." Hope you enjoy it!

A multiple-choice quiz by specialkarah. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
specialkarah
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
235,682
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
325
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Question 1 of 10
1. What was the question Kolya asked his history teacher that the latter couldn't answer? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What is the answer to the question Kolya's history teacher couldn't answer? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What is the name of the dog Ilyusha wishes to see again and feels remorse for causing pain to? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. How did Ilyusha make the dog run away, which caused the former much remorse? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What was the name Kolya asked a young man if he knew, that caused so much commotion? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which of these did Kolya Krassotkin not read yet? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What is Kolya's least favorite class? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What amazing feat does Kolya perform that earns him the respect of older boys? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. That's enough for Kolya and friends.

Now for questions about the rest of the novel:

How many kopecks did Fyodor Pavlovich have in the envelope meant for Grushenka?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. How long was Fyodor Pavlovich married to his second wife? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What was the question Kolya asked his history teacher that the latter couldn't answer?

Answer: Who founded Troy?

Dardanelov was the teacher who couldn't answer the question about the founders of Troy. Kolya Krassotkin had read it in Smaragdov, a historian whose books his dead father had owned.
2. What is the answer to the question Kolya's history teacher couldn't answer?

Answer: Teucer, Dardanus, Ilius, and Tros

A boy, Kartashov, looked in Smaragdov and found the answer. However, when he told the rest of his schoolfellows, Kolya asked him, "In what sense did they found it? What is meant by founding a city or state? What do they do? Did they go and each lay a brick, do you suppose?"

Belgrade is the capital of Yugoslavia.

Mary is the Wife of William of Orange, who ruled England under a constitutional monarchy after the Glorious Revolution in 1688.

No one knows how Alexander the Great died, but poisoning is one theory.
3. What is the name of the dog Ilyusha wishes to see again and feels remorse for causing pain to?

Answer: Zhutchka

Zhutchka is a "rough-haired dog, of medium size," whose coat is lilac-grey. He's blind in his right eye, and his left ear was torn.
Perezvon is the name Kolya gives Zhutchka so that he can surprise Ilyusha.
4. How did Ilyusha make the dog run away, which caused the former much remorse?

Answer: He threw the dog a loaf of bread with a pin stuck in it.

Smerdyakov taught Ilyusha this nasty trick. Toss a bread with a pin in it to a dog; it'll eat anything. Ilyusha saw Zhutchka eat his bread and run away. It frightened him so much, and he was very remorseful. His parents bought him a mastiff pup, but it didn't comfort him.
Finally, Kolya, a former friend of his, brought his dog Perezvon to his house. As it turned out, Perezvon was really Zhutchka. Kolya had taught it a few tricks, and Ilyusha was grateful to see Zhutchka again. The dog must've spit out the bread, because it certainly would've died with the pin in its belly.
5. What was the name Kolya asked a young man if he knew, that caused so much commotion?

Answer: Sabaneyev

Kolya walked away brusquely as if it was imbecilic to not know who Sabaneyev was. The young man had impudently stopped Kolya to ask him if he was at his pranks again. Kolya tells him that he's on Trifon Nikitich's business, and the young man doesn't need to know about it.
As Kolya leaves, the young man asks the people around him who Sabayenev is. One lady suggests that it must be a man who worked for the Kuzmitchovs, but another contradicts this statement. Somebody says it must be Alexey Ivanitch Tchizhov.

Kolya doesn't really know a Sabaneyev.
6. Which of these did Kolya Krassotkin not read yet?

Answer: "Onegin" by Puskin

This is mentioned in my favorite chapter, Volume 4, Book 10, Chapter 6: "Precocity". Kolya has read Smaragdov's histories, as mentioned above. He read only "Candide" of Voltaire, and understood it well. He read some of Byelinsky, including the passage about Tatyana, why she didn't marry Onegin.
He wants to read "Onegin" by Pushkin, but hasn't gotten to it yet. He was thirteen, soon to be fourteen, when he said this.
7. What is Kolya's least favorite class?

Answer: Latin

Kolya believes that the classical languages "stupefy the intellect." He's first in his class in Latin, but he still thinks it beneath him. He loves studying mathematics and natural science the most. Kolya's not too fond of history, but he doesn't think it's nearly as insignificant as the classical languages.
8. What amazing feat does Kolya perform that earns him the respect of older boys?

Answer: Lay down beneath the train tracks as a locomotive passed over him

He won two roubles for this feat. The other boys ran away when the train came, and were afraid that Kolya had been smothered and died.

Nowhere in the novel is there mention of a Ramos Kuzhov.

It was Pheidippides who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens. He died afterward.
9. That's enough for Kolya and friends. Now for questions about the rest of the novel: How many kopecks did Fyodor Pavlovich have in the envelope meant for Grushenka?

Answer: 300,000

It was three thousand roubles, and there are a hundred kopecks to a rouble. Therefore, it was 300,000 kopecks.
10. How long was Fyodor Pavlovich married to his second wife?

Answer: eight years

Sofya Ivanovna was the mother of both Ivan and Alexei. She perished after only eight years of marriage to Fyodor Pavlovich. (Mitya had a different mother.)
Source: Author specialkarah

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