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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nurse think of Tatyana when she sees her distracted and distraught?
(a) That she loves the neighbor's son.
(b) That she is worried for father's health.
(c) That she has read too many romance novels.
(d) That she must be ill.

2. What do the neighbors say after Eugene had dinner at the Larin estate?
(a) That he and Tatyana are engaged.
(b) That perhaps he wasn't so bad after all.
(c) That the Larins had betrayed the community.
(d) None of the above.

3. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Compose a short poem before bed.
(b) Preen himself for hours in front of a mirror and go to several parties and balls.
(c) Get very drunk.
(d) Retire to bed early.

4. What caused Tatyana's mother great sadness in her youth?
(a) Her parents died when she was very young.
(b) She was separated from the man she loved to marry Tatyana's father.
(c) Her true love died in battle.
(d) Her family disowned her when she eloped with her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?

2. What happens just as Tatyana finishes writing her letter?

3. What does Eugene Onegin assume dinner at the Larin household will be like?

4. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?

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

(see the answer key)

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