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Don Juan (drama) - Quiz
Contributed by: Crossley
  • 1. Who is the author of the 1862 drama 'Don Juan'?
A) Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
B) Tirso de Molina
C) Pyotr Tchaikovsky
D) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 2. In which magazine was 'Don Juan' first published in 1862?
A) The Russian Messenger
B) The Romanticist Weekly
C) Literary Gazette
D) The Moscow Review
  • 3. Which troupe staged 'Don Juan' for the first time in 1905?
A) Adelgeim Brothers
B) St. Petersburg Drama Society
C) Moscow Art Theatre
D) Imperial Russian Ballet
  • 4. Who composed the incidental music for the play?
A) Aleksey Tolstoy
B) Pyotr Tchaikovsky
C) Eduard Nápravník
D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 5. What is the title of the musical piece Tchaikovsky set to music based on the play?
A) Satan's Aria
B) Don Juan's Serenade
C) The Alpine Dream
D) The Russian Messenger Waltz
  • 6. To whom did Tolstoy dedicate his drama 'Don Juan'?
A) Mikhail Katkov and Ivan Aksakov
B) Goethe and Tirso de Molina
C) Mozart and E. T. A. Hoffmann
D) Boleslav Markevich and Vasily Botkin
  • 7. Why did Tolstoy dedicate the play to E. T. A. Hoffmann?
A) Hoffmann edited the final manuscript
B) Hoffmann wrote the original music for the play
C) Hoffmann saw Don Juan as a seeker of high ideal
D) Hoffmann was a personal friend of the author
  • 8. When did censors deem the production of 'Don Juan' 'unsuitable'?
A) 1862
B) 1891
C) 1858
D) 1905
  • 9. Tolstoy compared his version of Don Juan to which other literary figure?
A) Faust
B) Romeo
C) Hamlet
D) Don Quixote
  • 10. Which author influenced the scenes and characters of 'Don Juan' including the character of Satan?
A) Goethe
B) Pushkin
C) Tirso de Molina
D) Dostoevsky
  • 11. Who did Tolstoy consult in the autumn of 1861 while in Moscow?
A) Eduard Nápravník
B) Tchaikovsky
C) The Adelgeim Brothers
D) Mikhail Katkov and Ivan Aksakov
  • 12. How did Tolstoy characterize the role of love in his drama?
A) A physical desire based on worldly beginnings
B) A link between the human soul and higher spheres
C) A distraction from universal laws
D) A source of philandering and chaos
  • 13. What was Tolstoy's specific demand when submitting his manuscript to The Russian Messenger?
A) That the play be performed immediately
B) That it be dedicated to the Tsar
C) Not a single word being crossed out
D) That the incidental music be included
  • 14. In what year did Tolstoy first get the idea for the play?
A) 1857
B) 1860
C) 1861
D) 1862
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