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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She shrinks with shame and fear.
(c) All of the above.
(d) She wishes he had never come to the country.

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

3. What can be said of Eugene Onegin's father?
(a) He was dissappointed in Onegin.
(b) He was irresponsible with money.
(c) He was devoted to the care of his estate.
(d) He devoted everything to his son.

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

5. How does the narrator see Eugene Onegin's inability to be moved by love?
(a) As wise and safe.
(b) As wretched and miserable.
(c) As the unavoidable conclusion of all who marry.
(d) All of the above.

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

7. What cycle does Pushkin write about at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) The seasons.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Passion and coldness.

8. What does Eugene find when he reaches his uncle's estate in the country?
(a) That he lacks all his beloved comforts of home.
(b) That his father has sent all his books to him there.
(c) That country girls are charming.
(d) That his uncle has already died.

9. What happens to interfere with the plans the new friends have made?
(a) His new friend is jailed for treason.
(b) They borrow too much money and are exiled.
(c) Eugene Onegin's father dies and he hands over the estate to creditors.
(d) His father sends Eugene to the country.

10. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?
(a) Olga and Tatyana.
(b) Tatyana and Vladimir Lensky.
(c) Olga and Vladimir Lensky.
(d) Eugene Onegin and Olga.

11. What is the estate like that Eugene Onegin inherited from his uncle?
(a) Historical and in bad disrepair.
(b) Extensive lands worked by hundreds of peasants.
(c) A huge modern home representative of the uncles status.
(d) A tasteful old style place in beautiful countryside.

12. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?
(a) Cold and distant.
(b) Pensive and withdrawn.
(c) Friendly and loving.
(d) Dark and moody.

13. What is the first thing Tatyana does when she can't sleep at night?
(a) Tatyana runs through the forest to look at Eugene Onegin's house.
(b) Tatyana reads romance novels to distract her mind so she can sleep.
(c) Tatyana wakes up her nurse and asks her about love in the old days.
(d) None of the above.

14. Why does Eugene agree to go to the celebration household?
(a) All of the above.
(b) He wants to see Tatyana.
(c) He is afraid of offending the family.
(d) Vladimir Lensky asks him to as a favor to him.

15. Which of the following does Eugene tell Tatyana in response to her letter?
(a) She will move on to another quickly.
(b) All of the above.
(c) His tender love must be as that of a brother.
(d) She should learn restraint or others will hurt her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Eugene Onegin is done responding to Tatyana's letter?

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

3. How does the narrator see Vladimir Lensky's enthusiasm about marriage?

4. To whom does the narrator read his poetry?

5. What problem does the narrator have in presenting Tatyana's writing to the reader?

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