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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eugene Onegin respond to Vladimir Lensky's note the day after Tanya's name day celebration?
(a) He curtly accepts the challenge.
(b) None of the above.
(c) He laughs out loud.
(d) He rushes out to make amends with his friend.

2. Which of the following personages best describes Onegin?
(a) A discontent who finds everthing beneath him.
(b) A witty and eloquent dandy who dances well.
(c) A well meaning but naive child of Russian aristocracy.
(d) A snobbish aristrocrat who manipulates people for his political advantage.

3. Why does Vladimir Lensky leave the company of Eugene Onegin each evening once their friendship is established?
(a) Spending too much time with Eugene depresses him.
(b) He is afraid of Eugene after he starts drinking.
(c) To have dinner at the Larin household.
(d) He is carrying on a secret love affair with Olga.

4. What happens shortly after Vladimir falls asleep the night before the duel?
(a) Zaretsky comes to wake him.
(b) Eugene Onegin knocks at the door but goes unheard.
(c) Vladimir has terrible dreams of death.
(d) A letter arrives for him.

5. Where was Vladimir Lensky buried?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Where he fell.
(c) Beneath two pine trees near a creek.
(d) In his grand estate cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vladimir Lensky spend the night before the duel?

2. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?

3. What topic of conversation does Vladimir Lensky constantly return to when talking with Eugene Onegin?

4. What was Tatyana most fond of growing up?

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

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