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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic of conversation does Vladimir Lensky constantly return to when talking with Eugene Onegin?
(a) Olga's beauty.
(b) The virtues of passion.
(c) Olga's wit.
(d) The charms of country life.

2. To whom does the narrator read his poetry?
(a) His old nurse, visitors he can corner, and ducks.
(b) The muse that inspires it.
(c) His family and at public readings.
(d) Members of the literature society.

3. What happens after the death of Tatyana's father?
(a) Tatyana inherits the estate.
(b) Everybody mourns him.
(c) Tatyana and her family are plunged into poverty.
(d) His wife feels finally free.

4. How long has Vladimir Lensky known Olga?
(a) Vladimir Lensky met Olga at one of the neighbors after returning from Europe.
(b) Vladimir Lensky met Olga in Europe.
(c) Vladimir Lensky and Olga grew up together because their parents were friends.
(d) Vladimir Lensky was engaged to Olga from a baby but had never met her.

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

6. What does Tatyana say in her letter to Eugene Onegin?
(a) She would have kept her love secret if she knew she would occasionally see him
(b) All of the above.
(c) She wishes he had never come to the country.
(d) She shrinks with shame and fear.

7. What does Vladimir Lensky adore most about Olga?
(a) Her astute mind and sharp wit.
(b) Her love of poetry.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Her superficial attractions.

8. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?
(a) That it used to be about honesty and virtue.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It makes vice attractive.
(d) It worships vampires.

9. What does Tatyana do after she is rejected by Eugene?
(a) She decides to go to the city for distraction.
(b) She throws herself into studies for escape.
(c) She becomes depressed and ill.
(d) She spreads rumors about him.

10. How does Eugene come to feel about Vladimir Lensky?
(a) Eugene finds him trite and repetitive.
(b) Eugene comes to hate Lensky for being happy.
(c) Eugene adores and respects him.
(d) Lensky's passion depresses Eugene.

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

12. What does Tatyana do when she heard the neighbors gossip about Eugene Onegin?
(a) She encourages the rumors.
(b) She falls in love with him.
(c) She defends him vociferously.
(d) She becomes angry he ever appeared at their doorstep.

13. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?
(a) Death.
(b) The injustice of the political system.
(c) The power of thought.
(d) Love.

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

15. How does the narrator see Vladimir Lensky's enthusiasm about marriage?
(a) As contagious and affecting.
(b) As something true and beautiful.
(c) As naive of the endless dreary days ahead.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator confess to once having spent his last money on?

2. What does the narrator find charming in women?

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

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 does the narrator think of Eugene's actions?

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