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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Compose a short poem before bed.
(b) Get very drunk.
(c) Preen himself for hours in front of a mirror and go to several parties and balls.
(d) Retire to bed early.

3. What does Tatyana do when she heard the neighbors gossip about Eugene Onegin?
(a) She falls in love with him.
(b) She becomes angry he ever appeared at their doorstep.
(c) She defends him vociferously.
(d) She encourages the rumors.

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

5. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?
(a) It makes vice attractive.
(b) It worships vampires.
(c) All of the above.
(d) That it used to be about honesty and virtue.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator take time from his story to praise?

3. What does Eugene Onegin assume dinner at the Larin household will be like?

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

5. What does the narrator say of Tatyana?

(see the answer key)

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