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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for detailing how differently he and Eugene Onegin feel about the country?
(a) Everyone loves reading poetry about the countryside.
(b) To make it clear Onegin is not a self portrait.
(c) None of the above.
(d) To offer two perspectives on beauty.

2. What does Eugene Onegin report after the dinner with the Larins?
(a) That if he were a poet he would prefer Tatyana over Olga.
(b) That he had a splendid time with the kind family.
(c) That the food was the best he had ever tried.
(d) That he found them all petty and small.

3. 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 well meaning but naive child of Russian aristocracy.
(d) A snobbish aristrocrat who manipulates people for his political advantage.

4. How does Vladimir Lensky feel about Olga?
(a) He finds her boring.
(b) He is timid around her and nervous.
(c) He finds her bossy and brazen.
(d) He loves her passionately.

5. What does Eugene find when he reaches his uncle's estate in the country?
(a) That country girls are charming.
(b) That his father has sent all his books to him there.
(c) That his uncle has already died.
(d) That he lacks all his beloved comforts of home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladimir Lensky tell the Larin household when he arrives?

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

3. Which of the following best describes Vladimir Lensky?

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

5. Which of the following characters were designed as literary foils for each other?

(see the answer key)

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