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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky's favorite topic of discussion?
(a) Politics.
(b) Women.
(c) Men's passions.
(d) Plans to travel around Europe.

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

5. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Compose a short poem before bed.
(b) Preen himself for hours in front of a mirror and go to several parties and balls.
(c) Retire to bed early.
(d) Get very drunk.

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

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

8. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Spend the dinner hour with the influential people of the time.
(b) Eat grouse he had shot that day.
(c) Take dinner with his father.
(d) Have a gourmet dinner with another well known man about town.

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

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

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

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

13. What reason does the narrator give for detailing how differently he and Eugene Onegin feel about the country?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Everyone loves reading poetry about the countryside.
(c) To make it clear Onegin is not a self portrait.
(d) To offer two perspectives on beauty.

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

15. Which of the following characters were designed as literary foils for each other?
(a) Eugene Onegin and his neighbors.
(b) Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky.
(c) Olga and her mother.
(d) Tatyana's father and Eugene Onegin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first thing Tatyana does when she can't sleep at night?

3. Which of the following best characterizes the presence of the narrator in the story EUGENE ONEGIN?

4. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?

5. What happens after the death of Tatyana's father?

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