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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tatyana do when she heard the neighbors gossip about Eugene Onegin?
(a) She falls in love with him.
(b) She becomes angry he ever appeared at their doorstep.
(c) She encourages the rumors.
(d) She defends him vociferously.

2. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?
(a) As engaged.
(b) As the leaders of opposing troops on the battle field.
(c) As the hero and heroine of the romance novels she reads.
(d) As representing the best of the city life and country life.

3. Which of the following is true about Tatyana's nurse?
(a) She is as romantically inclined as Tatyana.
(b) She never married and has spent her whole life alone.
(c) She was married when she was thirteen in a marriage arranged by a match maker.
(d) She encourages Tatyana in her feelings about Eugene Onegin.

4. Who does Eugene Onegin befriend while he is depressed?
(a) The narrator.
(b) His uncle.
(c) A wealthy Frenchman.
(d) Tatyana.

5. What does the narrator think of Eugene's actions?
(a) None of the above.
(b) He thinks Eugene was kind and showed a noble heart.
(c) He thinks Eugene gloried in his victory over Tatyana's heart.
(d) He thinks Eugene was hasty and thoughtless.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What caused Tatyana's mother great sadness in her youth?

3. How long has Vladimir Lensky known Olga?

4. What do the neighbors think of Eugene after he rejects Tatyana?

5. Why does Vladimir Lensky leave the company of Eugene Onegin each evening once their friendship is established?

(see the answer key)

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