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QUIZ: Who is Dr. Zhivago?

Test your knowledge of one of the world’s best-known Russian novels and its author, Boris Pasternak.

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On Apr 18, 2017
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When he began work on the novel, Boris Pasternak was already famous as:

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The surname Zhivago was taken from real life: Pasternak saw it written on a cast-iron grill on the street. It comes from a Russian word meaning:

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Zhivago is a doctor of:

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In Siberia, Zhivago works for 18 months as:

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After the revolution, Lara’s husband, the math teacher Pavel Antipov, takes on the pseudonym Strelnikov and becomes:

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The novel was first published:

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The CIA distributed a free pocket edition of "Doctor Zhivago" in the USSR in order to:

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Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, the first Russian writer to gain this accolade in a quarter of a century. The previous one was:

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The novel was first legally published in the USSR in:

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There have been four screen adaptations of the novel so far. The first one was released:

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