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How well do you know these authors?

Here's a quiz that mixes some lesser known works with the titles more commonly found on required reading lists. How deep does your literary knowledge run?

( of 35 correct)

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky seeks to overcome his sense of the worthlessness of life and he enlists in the army, but when he is disillusioned about war, he returns to his previous nihilism.

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky seeks to overcome his sense of the worthlessness of life and he enlists in the army, but when he is disillusioned about war, he returns to his previous nihilism.

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky seeks to overcome his sense of the worthlessness of life and he enlists in the army, but when he is disillusioned about war, he returns to his previous nihilism.

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky seeks to overcome his sense of the worthlessness of life and he enlists in the army, but when he is disillusioned about war, he returns to his previous nihilism.

21. In which novel by Leo Tolstoy does this character appear?


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