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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What change came about Eugene Onegin as a young man?
(a) He grew bored with his social routine.
(b) He felt the need to marry.
(c) He grew apart from his father.
(d) He became addicted to gambling.

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

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

5. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?
(a) Eugene Onegin and Olga.
(b) Olga and Vladimir Lensky.
(c) Olga and Tatyana.
(d) Tatyana and Vladimir Lensky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator take time from his story to praise?

2. Why does Eugene agree to go to the celebration household?

3. What can be said of Eugene Onegin's father?

4. How does Vladimir Lensky feel about Olga?

5. What does Eugene Onegin try to do to alleviate his depression? What is the result?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Vladimir in love with? What is she like?

2. What is Eugene doing when the novel opens? How does he feel about it?

3. What is the tone of the letter that Tatyana wrote to Eugene Onegin? What does she express?

4. What response does Eugene Onegin give Tatyana?

5. As Tatyana waits for an answer to her letter from Eugene, what does Vladimir Lensky tell them? What affect does this have on Tatyana?

6. How does Eugene Onegin receive Tatyana's letter?

7. When Eugene becomes tired of his social life and routine and falls into depression, what does he do?

8. There are two sets of literary foils, or opposites, that the reader is introduced to in the country. Who are the two sets and how are they opposites?

9. What events unfold when Tatyana hears Eugene Onegin's horse arriving?

10. What chastisement does Eugene Onegin give Tatyana at the end of his response to her letter?

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