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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does the narrator have in presenting Tatyana's writing to the reader?
(a) It is so personal he feels the need to protect her.
(b) She burned everything she wrote.
(c) She wrote her love letter in French.
(d) Her writings were dark and gloomy and unfitting for verse.

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

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

4. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?
(a) Seducing women.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Quoting the classics.
(d) Running the estate with his father.

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(a) Pensive and withdrawn.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

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

7. What did Eugene Onegin do that angered his new neighbors in the countryside?
(a) He does not address them with sufficient respect.
(b) He institutes rent instead of unpaid labor from the peasants.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He rides away whenever they come visit.

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

9. What was Eugene Onegin's reaction to Tatyana's letter?
(a) He considered making her his next conquest.
(b) He was uncomfortable with the innapropriateness of it.
(c) He was moved for a moment to passion.
(d) He laughed at it, thinking her simple.

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

11. Which of the following personages best describes Onegin?
(a) A well meaning but naive child of Russian aristocracy.
(b) A discontent who finds everthing beneath him.
(c) A snobbish aristrocrat who manipulates people for his political advantage.
(d) A witty and eloquent dandy who dances well.

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

13. Why does Vladimir Lensky want to meet Eugene Onegin?
(a) He gets tired of the provincial conversation of his neighbors.
(b) He thinks the new system of rent is revolutionary and genius.
(c) He wants advice seducing women.
(d) He has heard much about him from friends that knew Eugene.

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

15. 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."
(a) Hate.
(b) Eugene Onegin.
(c) Her father.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?

2. What is the narrator fond of writing in?

3. After Tatyana's disappointment, how are Vladimir Lensky and Olga doing?

4. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?

5. What change came about Eugene Onegin as a young man?

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