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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brought Tatyana's mother relief from her sadness as she grew up?
(a) A large and loving family.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Time passing and the role of housewife.
(d) She met and married another man.

2. How did Tatyana's parents meet?
(a) None of the above.
(b) They met and eloped when he was in the army.
(c) The were paired through an arranged marriage.
(d) They were both part of the fashionable Moscow crowd.

3. Which of the following best describes Vladimir Lensky?
(a) A lazy and impotent dreamer.
(b) An impassioned youth with an open heart.
(c) Completely absorbed by German writers.
(d) A foreign womanizer.

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

5. 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) Tatyana's father and Eugene Onegin.
(d) Olga and her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to interfere with the plans the new friends have made?

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

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

4. What does Eugene Onegin think of the country?

5. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?

(see the answer key)

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