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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?
(a) Love.
(b) The injustice of the political system.
(c) Death.
(d) The power of thought.

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

3. Why does Vladimir Lensky want to meet Eugene Onegin?
(a) He wants advice seducing women.
(b) He has heard much about him from friends that knew Eugene.
(c) He thinks the new system of rent is revolutionary and genius.
(d) He gets tired of the provincial conversation of his neighbors.

4. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?
(a) Olga and Tatyana.
(b) Olga and Vladimir Lensky.
(c) Tatyana and Vladimir Lensky.
(d) Eugene Onegin and Olga.

5. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?
(a) He would be a good match for their daughters.
(b) He was as eccentric as Eugene Onegin.
(c) He had returned from abroad too foreign.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Eugene Onegin decide to go with Vladimir Lensky to dinner at the Larin household?

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

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

4. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?

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

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