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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change came about Eugene Onegin as a young man?
(a) He grew apart from his father.
(b) He grew bored with his social routine.
(c) He became addicted to gambling.
(d) He felt the need to marry.

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

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

4. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?
(a) Prospects of running the estate.
(b) His title.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Women.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Vladimir Lensky want to meet Eugene Onegin?

3. Which of the following personages best describes Onegin?

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

5. Which of the following best characterizes the presence of the narrator in the story EUGENE ONEGIN?

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