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Dostoevsky's psychological novel. Play Crime and Punishment trivia solo to sharpen your knowledge, or challenge a friend head-to-head in Trivia Tango — every question comes with an explanation so you learn as you play. Questions span every level, from easy warm-ups to expert-level stumpers, so there's a real challenge here however much you already know.
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This Russian author penned Crime and Punishment in 1866.
Difficulty: Easy- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anton Chekhov
- Ivan Turgenev
This young woman, forced into prostitution to support her family, becomes Raskolnikov's moral guide and love interest.
Difficulty: Medium- Sonya Marmeladova
- Dunya Raskolnikova
- Lizaveta Ivanovna
- Nastasya
This is the specific philosophical school Lebezyatnikov represents in the novel, which Dostoevsky satirizes as shallow progressivism.
Difficulty: Hard- Utopian socialism
- Anarcho-communism
- German idealism
- French materialism
This impoverished former student is the protagonist who commits murder in Crime and Punishment.
Difficulty: Easy- Dmitri Razumikhin
- Rodion Raskolnikov
- Porfiry Petrovich
- Arkady Svidrigailov
This woman was Svidrigailov's wife, whose death under suspicious circumstances allowed him to pursue Dunya.
Difficulty: Medium- Nastasya Filippovna
- Alyona Ivanovna
- Marfa Petrovna
- Katerina Ivanovna
This is the literary term for how Crime and Punishment compresses most of its action into approximately two weeks of story time.
Difficulty: Hard- Temporal ellipsis
- Unity of time
- Dramatic compression
- Accelerated narrative
This Russian city serves as the setting for Crime and Punishment.
Difficulty: Easy- Moscow
- Kazan
- St. Petersburg
- Novgorod
This symbolic dream features a peasant brutally beating a horse to death while young Raskolnikov watches helplessly.
Difficulty: Medium- The mare dream
- The African dream
- The Napoleon dream
- The flood dream
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