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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for detailing how differently he and Eugene Onegin feel about the country?
(a) Everyone loves reading poetry about the countryside.
(b) None of the above.
(c) To offer two perspectives on beauty.
(d) To make it clear Onegin is not a self portrait.

2. What cycle does Pushkin write about at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Passion and coldness.
(d) The seasons.

3. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?
(a) Seducing women.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Running the estate with his father.
(d) Quoting the classics.

4. What does the narrator take time from his story to praise?
(a) The beauty of the countryside.
(b) Women's feet.
(c) Russian theater.
(d) All of the above.

5. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Tatyana as his clear favorite.
(c) Olga, and not Tatyana, as being like her mother.
(d) Tatyana and Olga as opposites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?

2. What does Eugene Onegin try to do to alleviate his depression? What is the result?

3. Who does Eugene Onegin befriend while he is depressed?

4. Which of the following best describes Vladimir Lensky?

5. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?

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