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What illness did Fyodor Dostoevsky experience throughout much of his adult life?
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Epilepsy
What was the name of the fictional narrator of Dostoevsky’s Notes from a Dead House?
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Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov
Which French novel did Fyodor Dostoevsky translate into Russian as his first published literary work?
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Eugénie Grandet
In what year did Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot begin appearing in serial publication?
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1868
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Which Dostoevsky work is subtitled “A Petersburg Poem”?
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The Double
What was the name of the fictional narrator of Dostoevsky’s Notes from a Dead House?
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Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov
Who founded the Saint Petersburg discussion circle that Fyodor Dostoevsky joined in 1847?
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Mikhail Petrashevsky
What was the name of Dostoevsky’s 1846 novel about the clerk Golyadkin?
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The Double
Which Dostoevsky novel centers on the gambler Alexey Ivanovich?
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The Gambler
What was the name of the literary group Dostoevsky joined in Saint Petersburg in 1847?
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Petrashevsky Circle
In which literary magazine was Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment first published?
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The Russian Messenger
Which Dostoevsky novel is based on his experiences in a Siberian prison camp?
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The House of the Dead