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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladimir Lensky spend the night before the duel?
(a) Trying to think of a way out of the duel.
(b) Asleep.
(c) Angrily accusing Eugene Onegin of all his misfortunes.
(d) Awake, writing poetry and thinking of Olga.

2. How does Eugene Onegin feel about the situation in which he finds himself?
(a) All of the above.
(b) He hates being at this sort of feast.
(c) He vows to take vengence on Lensky.
(d) He is angered by Tatyana's distress.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the presence of the narrator in the story EUGENE ONEGIN?
(a) Pivotal and active.
(b) Distant and preachy.
(c) Present and convivial.
(d) Cold and distraught.

4. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?
(a) Running the estate with his father.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Seducing women.
(d) Quoting the classics.

5. What change came about Eugene Onegin as a young man?
(a) He became addicted to gambling.
(b) He felt the need to marry.
(c) He grew bored with his social routine.
(d) He grew apart from his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tatyana do at the end of the story as Eugene kneels before her?

2. What can be said of Onegin's education?

3. What happens the first time that Tatyana goes to Eugene Onegin's estate after he has left?

4. What reason does the narrator give for detailing how differently he and Eugene Onegin feel about the country?

5. What is the narrator's impression of winter in the country?

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