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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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(c) Pensive and withdrawn.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

3. What happens just as Tatyana finishes writing her letter?
(a) The sun rises.
(b) Eugene Onegin arrives at the house.
(c) Olga asks her to go visiting with her.
(d) Tatyana leaves the letter and Olga finds it.

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

5. What is the narrator fond of writing in?
(a) Gorgeous albums stamped with gold.
(b) Yearly almanacs.
(c) Country girl's albums.
(d) Collections of the best poets.

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

7. What was Tatyana most fond of growing up?
(a) Playing with other girls.
(b) Learning city manners.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Dark stories.

8. What does the nurse think of Tatyana when she sees her distracted and distraught?
(a) That she loves the neighbor's son.
(b) That she is worried for father's health.
(c) That she must be ill.
(d) That she has read too many romance novels.

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

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

11. 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 Tatyana has moved to the city.
(c) That Olga begs him to come to a party at their house.
(d) That he is invited to Tatyana's name day celebration.

12. What does Eugene Onegin try to do to alleviate his depression? What is the result?
(a) He proposes to a girl, but she rejects him.
(b) He wants to travel, but his father won't let him.
(c) He tries to borrow money, but is denied.
(d) He tries to write, but cannot.

13. What does Olga think of Vladimir Lensky's poetry about her?
(a) She thinks his poems are trite and mundane.
(b) She makes him read it to her in front of everyone.
(c) She doesn't read poetry.
(d) She loves being the muse of his inspiration.

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

15. How does Vladimir Lensky feel about Olga?
(a) He loves her passionately.
(b) He finds her boring.
(c) He finds her bossy and brazen.
(d) He is timid around her and nervous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does the narrator give to the reader about Russian balls?

2. What does the narrator say about cold and distant women?

3. What is the estate like that Eugene Onegin inherited from his uncle?

4. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?

5. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....

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