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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 narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?
(a) It is touching whimsy free of art.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It makes him ache inside.
(d) He reads it again and again.

2. Which of the following personages best describes Onegin?
(a) A witty and eloquent dandy who dances well.
(b) A discontent who finds everthing beneath him.
(c) A snobbish aristrocrat who manipulates people for his political advantage.
(d) A well meaning but naive child of Russian aristocracy.

3. What could be found in Eugene Onegin's private rooms?
(a) All the latest tools for hygiene and fashion from Paris and London.
(b) Nothing, the rooms were spartan and bare and contained little more than a bed, desk, and armoir.
(c) A library of significant classic literature.
(d) A large collection of taxidermied animals.

4. What does Eugene Onegin try to do to alleviate his depression? What is the result?
(a) He tries to write, but cannot.
(b) He wants to travel, but his father won't let him.
(c) He proposes to a girl, but she rejects him.
(d) He tries to borrow money, but is denied.

5. What do Eugene Onegin and his new friend do together to alleviate their depression?
(a) Dream of power.
(b) Fall in love.
(c) Hang out near the Neva river and talk.
(d) Gamble.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?

3. What problem does the narrator have in presenting Tatyana's writing to the reader?

4. What does the narrator say about cold and distant women?

5. What was Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky's favorite topic of discussion?

(see the answer key)

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