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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Gather with friends and fellow land owners.
(b) Fight with his father as his father became drunk.
(c) Study until late.
(d) Make a brief appearance at a ballet to look for women to seduce.

2. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?
(a) It is touching whimsy free of art.
(b) It makes him ache inside.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He reads it again and again.

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

4. 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 boring tending his uncle will be.
(c) He much he dislikes the country.
(d) How fleeting life is.

5. Which of the following best describes how the narrator describes Olga?
(a) The ideal woman.
(b) A common country girl.
(c) Silly and heartless.
(d) Perfect to the point of being boring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does the narrator claim to devote this poem?

3. What did Eugene Onegin do that angered his new neighbors in the countryside?

4. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?

5. What problem does the narrator have in presenting Tatyana's writing to the reader?

(see the answer key)

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