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Физика, биология, химия, математика, кино и всё такое. Физика тамошняя не понравилась: за подобные формулировки законов Ньютона я поставил бы неуд.

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 curiosityxml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

Еще там есть No Fear Shakespeare - построчный перевод творений Барда на современный английский:

Original Text	Modern Text
Enter BARNARDO and FRANCISCO, two sentinels	BARNARDO and FRANCISCO, two watchmen, enter.
BARNARDO Who’s there?	BARNARDO Who’s there?
FRANCISCO Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.	FRANCISCO No, who are you? Stop and identify yourself.
BARNARDO Long live the king!	BARNARDO Long live the king!
FRANCISCO   Barnardo?	FRANCISCO Is that Barnardo?
BARNARDO     He.	BARNARDO Yes, it’s me.
FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour.	FRANCISCO You’ve come right on time.
BARNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.	BARNARDO The clock’s just striking twelve. Go home to bed, Francisco.
etc.

2. What calendar did Russia use until February 1918?
(A) Julian
(B) Gregorian
(C) Old Slavonic
(D) Hebrew

3. Which tsar did terrorists assassinate in 1881?
(A) Nicholas I
(B) Alexander I
(C) Alexander II
(D) Alexander III

4. What slogan was shouted during the February Revolution?
(A) “Let them eat cake!”
(B) “Freedom and justice!”
(C) “No more war!”
(D) “Bread and peace!”

5. The February Revolution began as a(n)
(A) International Women’s Day march
(B) Railroad strike
(C) Food drive for soldiers on the front
(D) Bolshevik rally

6. Where was the tsar during the February Revolution?
(A) Visiting soldiers on the front
(B) In the Winter Palace
(C) At a peace conference in Europe
(D) In the Kremlin

7. As a result of the February Revolution, the tsar
(A) Was thrown out of office
(B) Exiled
(C) Voluntarily abdicated
(D) Was immediately executed

8. After the February Revolution, how many organizations claimed to be the new Russian government?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four

9. The provisional government was made up of
(A) Former members of the Synod
(B) Former ministers under the tsar
(C) Revolutionaries
(D) Former members of the Duma

10. Which country’s government aided Lenin in returning to Russia?
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) Turkey
(D) Britain

11. Upon his return to Russia, how did Lenin view revolutionaries outside his own party?
(A) As friends and allies
(B) As potential Bolsheviks whom he needed to convert
(C) He ignored them
(D) As enemies who might be used temporarily but had to be eliminated in the end

12. What slogan did Lenin use following his arrival in Russia in April 1917?
(A) “There is such a party!”
(B) “All power to the Soviets!”
(C) “Proletarians of the world unite!”
(D) “Onward to the shining future!”

13. What was the set of ideas that Lenin expressed in the newspaper Pravda following his return to Russia?
(A) The April Theses
(B) The Communist Manifesto
(C) The Federalist Papers
(D) Das Kapital

14. During the summer following the February Revolution, what did Lenin initially believe was the best strategy for starting a second revolution?
(A) Use loyal troops to attack government buildings
(B) Take control of the press
(C) Encourage mass street riots
(D) Execute the tsar in public

15. The Bolshevik Party drew its support primarily from
(A) Peasants
(B) Aristocrats
(C) The intelligentsia
(D) The working class

16. The Petrograd Soviet was a(n)
(A) Union of workers and soldiers
(B) Organization of ex-monarchists
(C) Society of farmers
(D) Group consisting primarily of lawyers

17. Which of the following events seriously weakened the Bolsheviks?
(A) The First Congress of Soviets
(B) Kerensky’s June offensive
(C) The July Putsch
(D) Rasputin’s murder

18. Which of the following seriously weakened the provisional government?
(A) The July Putsch
(B) The Kornilov Affair
(C) Elections for the Constituent Assembly
(D) The First Congress of Soviets

19. Who was Lavr Kornilov?
(A) A Bolshevik
(B) A rebellious Cossack
(C) A monarchist army general
(D) Leader of the Petrograd Soviet

20. What happened as a result of the July Putsch?
(A) The provisional government was unseated
(B) The Petrograd Soviet split apart
(C) The army mutinied
(D) Several prominent Bolsheviks were arrested

21. Which is true of the Bolsheviks during August and September 1917?
(A) They split into two factions
(B) They had a strong boost in popular support
(C) They sought monetary assistance from Britain
(D) Lenin was betrayed by Trotsky

22. In early October 1917 all of the following were true of the Bolsheviks except
(A) Many were still uneasy about going ahead with a coup
(B) They held public debates together with members of the provisional government
(C) The Bolsheviks’ Central Committee met and decided to overthrow the provisional government
(D) They used the Smolny Institute as a headquarters

23. Which two Bolsheviks were most strongly against starting the revolution sooner rather than later?
(A) Kamenev and Zinoviev
(B) Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky
(C) Stalin and Lunacharsky
(D) Kerensky and Kornilov

24. Which action did the provisional government take against the Bolsheviks just prior to the October Revolution?
(A) Brought in loyal troops from the front
(B) Closed down Bolshevik newspapers
(C) Ordered police to raid the Smolny Institute
(D) Set up barricades around the Winter Palace

25. Who were the “junkers”?
(A) German army officers
(B) Workers in the Petrograd junkyard
(C) Russian army cadets assigned to defend government buildings
(D) Bolshevik military units

26. What was the Aurora?
(A) A Russian battleship brought into Petrograd to defend the provisional government
(B) A German yacht on which the peace treaty was signed between Germany and Russia
(C) The first Russian aircraft carrier, brought into service at the end of World War I
(D) A Russian cruiser brought into Petrograd by sailors loyal to the Bolsheviks

27. Why did it take an entire day for the Bolsheviks to capture the Winter Palace?
(A) Neither side was eager to fire on the other, so they negotiated for hours
(B) The palace was heavily guarded, and it took a long time to overcome all resistance
(C) The palace has hundreds of rooms, and it took the Bolsheviks a long time to find where the provisional government was hiding
(D) Lenin hesitated to give the order for his troops to enter the building

28. During the February Revolution, what sparked the mutiny among the soldiers?
(A) Some of the troops were disseminating Bolshevik propaganda within the ranks
(B) The soldiers did not have enough food to eat
(C) The troops were revolted by the idea of firing upon fellow Russians
(D) They were paid off by German spies

29. After the October Revolution, what was Lenin’s first official act?
(A) The Decree on Land
(B) The Decree on Property
(C) The Decree on Work
(D) The Decree on Peace

30. What happened to Kerensky after the revolution?
(A) He was imprisoned
(B) He was executed
(C) He fled the country
(D) He joined the Bolsheviks

31. What representative body was meeting in Petrograd on the same day as the October Revolution?
(A) The Constituent Assembly
(B) The Duma
(C) The Central Committee
(D) The Congress of Soviets

32. What was the official name of Lenin’s new government?
(A) The Politburo
(B) The Soviet of the People’s Commissars
(C) The Executive Committee
(D) The Supreme Soviet

33. Which former critic of Lenin chaired the Executive Committee?
(A) Zinoviev
(B) Trotsky
(C) Dzerzhinsky
(D) Kamenev

34. What was the immediate reaction of Russian upper classes to the October Revolution?
(A) The paid little attention to it
(B) They panicked and fled the country en masse
(C) They started a civil war
(D) They appealed to Britain and the United States for help

35. What was the Bolsheviks’ initial policy regarding the Constituent Assembly?
(A) They cancelled the elections
(B) They let the elections take place without interference
(C) They let the elections take place but attempted to manipulate the results
(D) They let the elections take place but required that 90 percent of the seats go to the Bolsheviks

36. How did the Bolsheviks fare in the elections for the Constituent Assembly?
(A) They received about one half of the vote
(B) They received about three fourths of the vote
(C) They received nearly 100 percent of the vote
(D) They received about one quarter of the vote

37. Which best describes the response to the October Revolution in Moscow?
(A) Unlike in Petrograd, the fighting went on in Moscow for nearly a week
(B) There was almost no reaction in Moscow at all
(C) A group of monarchists took control of the Kremlin
(D) Resistance continued in Moscow for over six months

38. Who became the Russian foreign minister under Lenin?
(A) Dzerzhinsky
(B) Zinoviev
(C) Trotsky
(D) Stalin

39. Immediately following the October Revolution, what was the state of the Bolsheviks’ plans for managing the country?
(A) They had mapped out a highly detailed government structure in advance
(B) They improvised the government’s structure as they went along
(C) They continued to use the same structure that the provisional government had created
(D) They invited the heads of socialist movements in Europe to help plan out Russia’s future

40. Which organization was headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky?
(A) The Foreign Ministry
(B) The NKVD
(C) The Cheka
(D) The GOP

41. How many times did the Constituent Assembly meet?
(A) Once
(B) Twice
(C) Three times
(D) Four times

42. The Red Terror was a response to which event?
(A) The beginning of the Civil War
(B) A terrorist bombing in Petrograd
(C) An assassination attempt on Lenin
(D) The entrance of U.S. and British troops into Russia

43. In March 1918, the Russian capital was moved to
(A) Petrograd
(B) Moscow
(C) Kiev
(D) Minsk

44. In the Russian Civil War, who were the Bolsheviks’ opponents?
(A) Monarchists
(B) Democrats
(C) Moderate socialists
(D) All of the above

45. Which representative body replaced the Constituent Assembly?
(A) The First Congress of Soviets
(B) The Second Congress of Soviets
(C) The Third Congress of Soviets
(D) The Executive Committee

46. The Kornilov affair can best be summed up as
(A) An attempted coup
(B) The inspiration for Dr. Zhivago
(C) A misunderstanding
(D) A terrorist plot

47. All of the following were groups involved in the Russian Civil War except
(A) The Reds
(B) The Whites
(C) The Blues
(D) The Greens

48. When did the Russian Civil War begin?
(A) Spring 1917
(B) Summer 1917
(C) Spring 1918
(D) Summer 1918

49. The Cheka was a forerunner of the
(A) Duma
(B) Petrograd Soviet
(C) Politburo
(D) KGB

50. The USSR finally collapsed in
(A) 1981
(B) 1989
(C) 1991
(D) 1993