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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Vladimir Lensky's death, how does Tatyana see Eugene Onegin?
(a) He love dies because she cannot respect him.
(b) She loathes what he has done but still loves him.
(c) She thinks he ruins goodness wherever he goes.
(d) She sees him as a cold, hateful man.

2. What does the narrator communicate about his muse?
(a) She is constant and unchanging.
(b) She is a fickle and demanding mistress.
(c) She has thrived wherever he goes.
(d) She comes and goes at will.

3. Who is Zaretsky?
(a) A wise old man.
(b) An honorable citizen with a blameless past.
(c) Vladimir Lensky's guardian.
(d) Cheif gamber and trouble maker in town.

4. Who visited Vladimir Lensky's grave?
(a) Eugene Onegin.
(b) Tatyana would sit there and wonder about past events.
(c) Two women who would hold each other and cry.
(d) Olga, alone, would sit and cry there for hours.

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

6. Where was Vladimir Lensky buried?
(a) In his grand estate cemetery.
(b) Beneath two pine trees near a creek.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Where he fell.

7. After the name day celebration, who is the one at the Larin household who can not sleep?
(a) Olga.
(b) Vladimir Lensky.
(c) Tatyana.
(d) Eugene Onegin.

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

9. When Tatyana flees from him, what does the bear in her dream do?
(a) Follows at her heels.
(b) Continually reappear in front of her.
(c) Fall into the raging river.
(d) Turn into Eugene Onegin.

10. Who travels with Tatyana to Moscow?
(a) Just Tatyana, her mother, and a footman travel to Moscow.
(b) Tatyana and the nurse travel light, expecting to buy fashionable clothes once they are there.
(c) An entire train of wagons needing eighteen horses and carrying nearly all their possessions.
(d) None of the above.

11. What is likely to have happened after the name day celebration had Zaretsky not intervened?
(a) Vladimir Lensky may have gone to murder Eugene that night.
(b) The whole affair might have blown over without a duel after emotions cooled.
(c) Vladimir Lensky would have confronted Olga before Eugene Onegin.
(d) The duel would not have been executed correctly according to tradition.

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

13. How does Vladimir Lensky spend the night before the duel?
(a) Awake, writing poetry and thinking of Olga.
(b) Angrily accusing Eugene Onegin of all his misfortunes.
(c) Asleep.
(d) Trying to think of a way out of the duel.

14. How does Eugene Onegin feel about the situation in which he finds himself?
(a) He vows to take vengence on Lensky.
(b) He hates being at this sort of feast.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He is angered by Tatyana's distress.

15. What is the narrator's impression of winter in the country?
(a) It is a time of depression and illness.
(b) It is a time of simple beauties.
(c) It holds joy only for the leisurely wealthy.
(d) It is a time when no one, not even Eugene, can resist the charm of the countryside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tatyana notice about all her relatives in Moscow?

2. What is Tatyana like when we see her at the ball in the last chapter?

3. In the beginning of Tatyana's dream, where is she?

4. What is Eugene Onegin's response to Tatyana's continued refusal?

5. What does Eugene Onegin do after the duel with Vladimir Lensky?

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