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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Vladimir Lensky and Eugene Onegin seated at the dinner table?
(a) In the seats of honor.
(b) At the end near Dame Larin.
(c) Lensky near Olga and Onegin near Tatyana.
(d) Right across from Tatyana.

2. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Compose a short poem before bed.
(b) Get very drunk.
(c) Retire to bed early.
(d) Preen himself for hours in front of a mirror and go to several parties and balls.

3. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?
(a) Tatyana and Olga as opposites.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Olga, and not Tatyana, as being like her mother.
(d) Tatyana as his clear favorite.

4. What does the narrator say about cold and distant women?
(a) Their joy is striking men with fear and then luring them back again.
(b) He flees from them in terror.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They even get bored with praise and sighs of passion.

5. When Eugene returns to the princes for dinner, and is left alone with Tatyana, what is their conversation like?
(a) He asks her to forgive him for everything in their past.
(b) He rekindles her love for him by recognizing her unhappiness beneath the mask.
(c) She is at ease while he stares at her mutely.
(d) She is uncomfortable and emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be said of Eugene Onegin's father?

2. How does Tatyana spend the summer before she travels to Moscow?

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

4. Who is the narrator referring to when he says Tatyana is "relying on a tyrant's honour, you've now resigned to him your fate."

5. What homage is paid to Tatyana at her name day celebration?

(see the answer key)

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