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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?
(a) That it used to be about honesty and virtue.
(b) It makes vice attractive.
(c) It worships vampires.
(d) All of the above.

3. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?
(a) He would be a good match for their daughters.
(b) He had returned from abroad too foreign.
(c) He was as eccentric as Eugene Onegin.
(d) None of the above.

4. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?
(a) The power of thought.
(b) Love.
(c) The injustice of the political system.
(d) Death.

5. 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 much his uncle has done for him.
(d) How boring tending his uncle will be.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Eugene Onegin do that angered his new neighbors in the countryside?

3. Why does Eugene Onegin decide to go with Vladimir Lensky to dinner at the Larin household?

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

5. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?

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