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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does the narrator give to the reader about Russian balls?
(a) It is the best way to spend a long winter.
(b) Families should keep their daughters well in sight.
(c) Be sure to look your best.
(d) Be careful which ones to go to as they define who you are.

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

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

4. What does Eugene Onegin think of the country?
(a) He feels at home and at peace.
(b) He pines for the grandeur of the city.
(c) He enjoys having an estate of his own to run.
(d) After two days he is bored with it.

5. What is the estate like that Eugene Onegin inherited from his uncle?
(a) A tasteful old style place in beautiful countryside.
(b) A huge modern home representative of the uncles status.
(c) Extensive lands worked by hundreds of peasants.
(d) Historical and in bad disrepair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vladimir Lensky adore most about Olga?

3. What does Eugene find when he reaches his uncle's estate in the country?

4. What was Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky's favorite topic of discussion?

5. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?

(see the answer key)

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