KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS
Question
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War and Peace
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Resurrection
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Anna Karenina
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1878) At the opening of his novel Anna Karenina, the Russian novelist Tolstoy writes ‘All Happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ‘
Detailed explanation-2: -The name of the principle derives from Leo Tolstoy’s 1877 novel Anna Karenina, which begins: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” “If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.” “Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.” “I’ll be bad; but anyway not a liar, a cheat.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Anna herself is unhappy in her marriage to Count Alexei Karenin, a senior statesman twenty years older than her who cannot satisfy her emotional needs.