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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes how the narrator describes Olga?
(a) Silly and heartless.
(b) A common country girl.
(c) Perfect to the point of being boring.
(d) The ideal woman.

2. What does Tatyana do when Eugene arrives at the Larin household.
(a) Begs Olga to stay by her side.
(b) Runs into the garden to wait for him.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Collects her thoughts and prepare for a confrontation.

3. After Tatyana's disappointment, how are Vladimir Lensky and Olga doing?
(a) Vladimir Lensky tries to stay away from Olga for Eugene, but she writes him letters begging his return.
(b) Olga is depressed and worried for her sister, and Vladimir comforts her and delays proposing to her.
(c) They quarrell because of Tatyana and Eugene.
(d) Vladimir and Olga spend all their time together and grow closer.

4. Which of the following characters were designed as literary foils for each other?
(a) Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky.
(b) Tatyana's father and Eugene Onegin.
(c) Eugene Onegin and his neighbors.
(d) Olga and her mother.

5. Which of the following does Eugene tell Tatyana in response to her letter?
(a) All of the above.
(b) His tender love must be as that of a brother.
(c) She should learn restraint or others will hurt her.
(d) She will move on to another quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator take time from his story to praise?

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

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

4. What reason does the narrator give for his preference for Bordeaux?

5. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?

(see the answer key)

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