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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the new friends plan on doing together that never comes to pass?
(a) Winning lots of money.
(b) Traveling the world.
(c) Marrying and raising kids.
(d) Rising to power.

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 thinks the new system of rent is revolutionary and genius.
(d) He gets tired of the provincial conversation of his neighbors.

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

4. What could be found in Eugene Onegin's private rooms?
(a) All the latest tools for hygiene and fashion from Paris and London.
(b) A large collection of taxidermied animals.
(c) A library of significant classic literature.
(d) Nothing, the rooms were spartan and bare and contained little more than a bed, desk, and armoir.

5. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?
(a) Friendly and loving.
(b) Pensive and withdrawn.
(c) Cold and distant.
(d) Dark and moody.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eugene Onegin think about as he travels to his ailing uncle's bedside?

3. What does Vladimir Lensky adore most about Olga?

4. What cycle does Pushkin write about at the end of Chapter 2?

5. What does Vladimir Lensky do for Tatyana's father after he passes away?

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