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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladimir Lensky feel about Olga?
(a) He finds her bossy and brazen.
(b) He is timid around her and nervous.
(c) He finds her boring.
(d) He loves her passionately.

2. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?
(a) As the leaders of opposing troops on the battle field.
(b) As representing the best of the city life and country life.
(c) As the hero and heroine of the romance novels she reads.
(d) As engaged.

3. What does Eugene Onegin try to do to alleviate his depression? What is the result?
(a) He tries to write, but cannot.
(b) He wants to travel, but his father won't let him.
(c) He proposes to a girl, but she rejects him.
(d) He tries to borrow money, but is denied.

4. Which of the following does Eugene tell Tatyana in response to her letter?
(a) He does not love her.
(b) If he were inclined to marry, she would be his choice.
(c) He is already sworn to another.
(d) None of the above.

5. Which of the following best characterizes the presence of the narrator in the story EUGENE ONEGIN?
(a) Distant and preachy.
(b) Present and convivial.
(c) Pivotal and active.
(d) Cold and distraught.

6. What does the narrator think of Eugene's actions?
(a) He thinks Eugene was hasty and thoughtless.
(b) None of the above.
(c) He thinks Eugene was kind and showed a noble heart.
(d) He thinks Eugene gloried in his victory over Tatyana's heart.

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

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

9. What does Vladimir Lensky tell the Larin household when he arrives?
(a) Eugene will be joining them but he was delayed by the mail.
(b) Eugene has just announced he is returning to the city.
(c) He has delivered the letter Olga gave to him.
(d) He bears good tidings.

10. What does Tatyana do after she is rejected by Eugene?
(a) She spreads rumors about him.
(b) She throws herself into studies for escape.
(c) She becomes depressed and ill.
(d) She decides to go to the city for distraction.

11. What was Tatyana most fond of growing up?
(a) Learning city manners.
(b) Playing with other girls.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Dark stories.

12. What reason does the narrator give for his preference for Bordeaux?
(a) It is a man's drink.
(b) It is cheaper.
(c) It has a long tradition.
(d) Champagne no longer agrees with his stomach.

13. What caused Tatyana's mother great sadness in her youth?
(a) Her true love died in battle.
(b) Her family disowned her when she eloped with her husband.
(c) She was separated from the man she loved to marry Tatyana's father.
(d) Her parents died when she was very young.

14. Who is Tatyana?
(a) A distant cousin living in the Larin household.
(b) Olga's older sister.
(c) A serving girl in the Larin household.
(d) Olga's best friend.

15. What does the narrator say about cold and distant women?
(a) He flees from them in terror.
(b) Their joy is striking men with fear and then luring them back again.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They even get bored with praise and sighs of passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....

2. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?

3. What message does Vladimir Lensky pass on to Eugene Onegin while visiting him in the winter?

4. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?

5. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....

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