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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the narrator claim to devote this poem?
(a) The feet of Terpsichore.
(b) To the yet unforeseen muse of the future.
(c) His lost love.
(d) Nobody.

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

3. What does the narrator take time from his story to praise?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Russian theater.
(c) The beauty of the countryside.
(d) Women's feet.

4. How does Eugene spend his summer after rejecting Tatyana?
(a) In the city avoiding the country community.
(b) Thinking of Tatyana.
(c) In isolation mindlessly occupied with trivial pleasures.
(d) Trying to make peace with the neighbors.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?

3. Who is Tatyana?

4. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?

5. How long has Vladimir Lensky known Olga?

(see the answer key)

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