SparkNotes: Anna Karenina: Quiz

1. What good deed does Anna do when she visits the Oblonsky household in Part One?

(A) She nurses their daughter back to health

(B) She offers them financial assistance

(C) She brings husband and wife back together

(D) She helps them sell a forest on their estate

2. Who is Frou-Frou?

(A) A dog

(B) A cow

(C) A horse

(D) A cat

3. Where do Anna and Vronsky first meet?

(A) On the street

(B) At the opera

(C) At a horse race

(D) At a train station

4. How are Stiva and Anna related?

(A) They are brother and sister

(B) They are husband and wife

(C) They are cousins

(D) They are father and daughter

5. What is the subject of the book Levin plans to write?

(A) Medicine

(B) Agriculture

(C) History

(D) Philosophy

6. In which country do Vronsky and Anna spend most of their time in Europe?

(A) France

(B) Italy

(C) Austria

(D) Spain

7. What happens at the train station just after Anna’s first meeting with Vronsky?

(A) A fire

(B) A death

(C) A riot

(D) A train wreck

8. What is Dolly’s maiden name?

(A) Shcherbatskaya

(B) Oblonskaya

(C) Karenina

(D) Tverskaya

9. Where does Anna make her disastrous attempt to rejoin St. Petersburg society after her scandal?

(A) At a garden party

(B) At a governor’s ball

(C) At the opera

(D) In a park

10. Who is Seryozha’s father?

(A) Karenin

(B) Stiva

(C) Levin

(D) Vronsky

11. What is the result of Vronsky’s error at the horse race?

(A) The maiming of Vronsky’s groom

(B) The death of Vronsky’s horse

(C) Stiva’s loss of a large bet

(D) Vronsky’s exile from Russia

12. What is Vronsky’s career before his resignation?

(A) Medicine

(B) Law

(C) Business

(D) The military

13. What does Levin fear during the severe thunderstorm on his estate in the last chapter of the novel?

(A) That his wife and son have been hurt

(B) That his fields have been flooded

(C) That his house has been hit by lightning

(D) That his dog has been stranded

14. What does Levin’s half-brother, Koznyshev, do?

(A) He is a farmer

(B) He is a writer and philosopher

(C) He is a lawyer

(D) He is a government official

15. What was Marya Nikolaevna’s profession when Nikolai Levin met her?

(A) Schoolteacher

(B) Nurse

(C) Maid

(D) Prostitute

16. What is the name of Levin and Kitty’s child?

(A) Mitya

(B) Grisha

(C) Annie

(D) Tanya

17. Who, besides Levin, courts Kitty?

(A) Vronsky

(B) Stiva

(C) Karenin

(D) Veslovsky

18. What does Vronsky have made in Italy?

(A) A wardrobe for Anna

(B) A luxury carriage

(C) A portrait of Anna

(D) A set of china

19. What does Veslovsky do to anger Levin?

(A) He is rude to Levin’s servants

(B) He expresses objectionable political views

(C) He expects Levin to pay his gambling debts

(D) He flirts with Kitty

20. Which pursuit does Anna take up during her life with Vronsky?

(A) Writing a children’s book

(B) Breeding roses

(C) Overseeing peasant education

(D) Playing the piano

21. What cause sweeps Russia in the final section of the novel?

(A) The Franco-Prussian war

(B) The Serbian war

(C) The Russian presidential elections

(D) The conquest of central Asia

22. Where does Anna die?

(A) At home

(B) In the Oblonsky house

(C) On the street

(D) At a train station

23. In the last chapter of the novel, what does Levin finally feel he understands?

(A) Why Anna killed herself

(B) Why Kitty originally rejected him

(C) Why Russian agriculture fails

(D) What faith is

24. What does the psychic Landau instruct Karenin to do?

(A) Take Anna back as his wife

(B) Reject Anna’s plea for a divorce

(C) Fight for a post on the government train commission

(D) Give up custody of Seryozha

25. What characteristic of Varenka’s does Kitty appreciate while at the German spa?

(A) Her good deeds

(B) Her fashion sense

(C) Her ability to attract male attention

(D) Her intellectual curiosity