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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 must be ill.
(b) That she is worried for father's health.
(c) That she loves the neighbor's son.
(d) That she has read too many romance novels.

2. What did Eugene Onegin do that angered his new neighbors in the countryside?
(a) He rides away whenever they come visit.
(b) He institutes rent instead of unpaid labor from the peasants.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He does not address them with sufficient respect.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the presence of the narrator in the story EUGENE ONEGIN?
(a) Distant and preachy.
(b) Cold and distraught.
(c) Pivotal and active.
(d) Present and convivial.

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

5. Who is the narrator referring to when he says Tatyana is "relying on a tyrant's honour, you've now resigned to him your fate."
(a) Hate.
(b) Her father.
(c) Eugene Onegin.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tatyana send the nurse away at night?

2. Who does Eugene Onegin befriend while he is depressed?

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

4. Which of the following best describes how the narrator describes Olga?

5. How long has Vladimir Lensky known Olga?

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