View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Eugene agree to go to the celebration household?
(a) Vladimir Lensky asks him to as a favor to him.
(b) All of the above.
(c) He is afraid of offending the family.
(d) He wants to see Tatyana.

2. Why does Tatyana send the nurse away at night?
(a) She needs to rest quietly.
(b) She has decided to write a letter.
(c) None of the above.
(d) The old woman's stories are dull.

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

4. What problem does the narrator have in presenting Tatyana's writing to the reader?
(a) She wrote her love letter in French.
(b) Her writings were dark and gloomy and unfitting for verse.
(c) She burned everything she wrote.
(d) It is so personal he feels the need to protect her.

5. To whom does the narrator read his poetry?
(a) His family and at public readings.
(b) Members of the literature society.
(c) His old nurse, visitors he can corner, and ducks.
(d) The muse that inspires it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eugene spend his summer after rejecting Tatyana?

2. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?

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

4. What does the narrator confess to once having spent his last money on?

5. How long has Vladimir Lensky known Olga?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 354 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample