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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does the narrator have in presenting Tatyana's writing to the reader?
(a) She burned everything she wrote.
(b) It is so personal he feels the need to protect her.
(c) She wrote her love letter in French.
(d) Her writings were dark and gloomy and unfitting for verse.

2. What does Eugene Onegin think about as he travels to his ailing uncle's bedside?
(a) How fleeting life is.
(b) He much he dislikes the country.
(c) How boring tending his uncle will be.
(d) How much his uncle has done for him.

3. How did Tatyana's parents meet?
(a) They were both part of the fashionable Moscow crowd.
(b) None of the above.
(c) They met and eloped when he was in the army.
(d) The were paired through an arranged marriage.

4. What does Eugene Onegin report after the dinner with the Larins?
(a) That the food was the best he had ever tried.
(b) That he had a splendid time with the kind family.
(c) That if he were a poet he would prefer Tatyana over Olga.
(d) That he found them all petty and small.

5. Which of the following best describes Vladimir Lensky?
(a) A foreign womanizer.
(b) Completely absorbed by German writers.
(c) An impassioned youth with an open heart.
(d) A lazy and impotent dreamer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tatyana?

2. What brought Tatyana's mother relief from her sadness as she grew up?

3. What reason does the narrator give for detailing how differently he and Eugene Onegin feel about the country?

4. What does Tatyana do when she heard the neighbors gossip about Eugene Onegin?

5. What happens just as Tatyana finishes writing her letter?

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