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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) All of the above.
(c) He flees from them in terror.
(d) They even get bored with praise and sighs of passion.

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

3. What message does Vladimir Lensky pass on to Eugene Onegin while visiting him in the winter?
(a) That the Larin family is offended he hasn't ever come to visit again.
(b) That he is invited to Tatyana's name day celebration.
(c) That Olga begs him to come to a party at their house.
(d) That Tatyana has moved to the city.

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

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

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

7. Which of the following is true about Tatyana's nurse?
(a) She encourages Tatyana in her feelings about Eugene Onegin.
(b) She was married when she was thirteen in a marriage arranged by a match maker.
(c) She never married and has spent her whole life alone.
(d) She is as romantically inclined as Tatyana.

8. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?
(a) As representing the best of the city life and country life.
(b) As the hero and heroine of the romance novels she reads.
(c) As engaged.
(d) As the leaders of opposing troops on the battle field.

9. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?
(a) All of the above.
(b) It is touching whimsy free of art.
(c) It makes him ache inside.
(d) He reads it again and again.

10. What do the new friends plan on doing together that never comes to pass?
(a) Winning lots of money.
(b) Traveling the world.
(c) Marrying and raising kids.
(d) Rising to power.

11. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?
(a) None of the above.
(b) He had returned from abroad too foreign.
(c) He would be a good match for their daughters.
(d) He was as eccentric as Eugene Onegin.

12. What reason does the narrator give for his preference for Bordeaux?
(a) It is cheaper.
(b) It has a long tradition.
(c) It is a man's drink.
(d) Champagne no longer agrees with his stomach.

13. As winter falls and he is stuck indoors, what is Eugene's only source of pleasure?
(a) The visits from Vladimir Lensky.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Re-reading Tatyana'sletter.
(d) Driving his troika.

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

15. Who does Eugene Onegin befriend while he is depressed?
(a) His uncle.
(b) Tatyana.
(c) The narrator.
(d) A wealthy Frenchman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the neighbors think of Eugene after he rejects Tatyana?

2. To whom does the narrator claim to devote this poem?

3. What does Tatyana say in her letter to Eugene Onegin?

4. What does the narrator say of Tatyana?

5. What does Eugene Onegin think about as he travels to his ailing uncle's bedside?

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