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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) 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.

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

3. Which of the following personages best describes Onegin?
(a) A discontent who finds everthing beneath him.
(b) A well meaning but naive child of Russian aristocracy.
(c) A snobbish aristrocrat who manipulates people for his political advantage.
(d) A witty and eloquent dandy who dances well.

4. Which of the following characters were designed as literary foils for each other?
(a) Eugene Onegin and his neighbors.
(b) Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky.
(c) Olga and her mother.
(d) Tatyana's father and Eugene Onegin.

5. What does the narrator say of Tatyana?
(a) She heeds the call of passion in an honest artless fashion.
(b) Her love is deep and true.
(c) She is trusting more than proud.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Eugene Onegin befriend while he is depressed?

3. Who is the narrator referring to when he says Tatyana is "relying on a tyrant's honour, you've now resigned to him your fate."

4. What does Vladimir Lensky tell the Larin household when he arrives?

5. What do the new friends plan on doing together that never comes to pass?

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