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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 think when he first sees Tatyana at a ball?
(a) Is it possible it's the same country girl?
(b) He must rescue her from her unhappiness.
(c) How could he not have seen her potential?
(d) He always knew she was meant for greater things.

2. How did Lensky fall during the duel?
(a) After wounding Onegin, Lensky is mortally shot.
(b) Lensky's gun backfires and kills him.
(c) During the third round of shots, Lensky is killed.
(d) Lensky is mortally killed before getting off a single shot.

3. What is Eugene Onegin's response to Tatyana's continued refusal?
(a) He submerges himself in literature and reflection on his life.
(b) All of the above.
(c) He becomes depressed and withdraws from society.
(d) He nealy turns poet.

4. As Vladimir leaves the name day celebration, what is he thinking?
(a) That Eugene is a monster.
(b) He should challenge Eugene Onegin to a duel.
(c) That his art is more important than anyone knows.
(d) He was wrong to drag Eugene to party.

5. What action does Eugene Onegin decide to do when Tatyana remains cold to him in Moscow?
(a) Travel again to distract himself.
(b) Challenge the prince to a duel.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Profess his love to her in person.

6. What does the note from Vladimir Lensky to Eugene Onegin the day after the name day celebration contain?
(a) A tirade about Eugene's betrayal.
(b) A challenge to a duel.
(c) A chastisement of his behavior.
(d) A poem about Olga's faithlessness.

7. In the spring after the winter that Vladimir Lensky died, what is the state of his grave?
(a) The shepard is the only person that comes around.
(b) The paths to it are all overgrown.
(c) A wreath no longer hangs above it.
(d) All the above.

8. What does Tatyana do at the end of the story as Eugene kneels before her?
(a) Question his motives.
(b) Deliver a sermon to him much like the one he delivered to her when she was young.
(c) Profess her continued love for him.
(d) All the above.

9. What does the wax in the water basin predict for Tatyana?
(a) That she has great power.
(b) That she will be rich and famous.
(c) That she will soon lose someone she cares for.
(d) That she will find true love.

10. How does Eugene Onegin spend his time before the duel?
(a) Cursing himself to have let the situation come to this.
(b) Asleep.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Trying to write a letter to Vladimir.

11. How does Tatyana react to the news that they are going to Moscow?
(a) She looks forward to bustle of the city to help distract her.
(b) She knows she will be mocked for her country ways.
(c) She looks forward to seeing the rest of her family.
(d) She hopes to run into Eugene Onegin.

12. Who, according to the narrator, does Vladimir Lensky's tombstone still cause to tear up?
(a) Tatyana.
(b) Passerbys that read the inscription.
(c) Olga.
(d) Eugene Onegin.

13. What is the state of affairs at the end of the novel, EUGENE ONEGIN?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Tatyana leaves Eugene foresaken and alone.
(c) Tatyana vows faithfulness to her husband for life.
(d) Tatyana appeals to Eugene's sense of honor.

14. What was Tatyana's response to meeting Eugene Onegin again at the ball after she is married?
(a) No one but Eugene could see her distress.
(b) She was nearly overwhelmed and turned pale.
(c) She became agitated and short with the people around her.
(d) She showed no emotion whatsoever about it.

15. What does Tatyana notice about all her relatives in Moscow?
(a) They haven't changed at all.
(b) They are all so sophisticated.
(c) They remember her more than she remembers them.
(d) They seem to pursue what they want.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following comparisons can be made according to the story Eugene Onegin?

2. How does Eugene Onegin feel about the situation in which he finds himself?

3. What vengeance does Eugene Onegin take on Vladimir Lensky at Tatyana's name day feast?

4. When Eugene returns to the princes for dinner, and is left alone with Tatyana, what is their conversation like?

5. Who fires first in the duel between Onegin and Lensky?

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