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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 does Tatyana do when Eugene arrives at the Larin household.
(a) Begs Olga to stay by her side.
(b) Collects her thoughts and prepare for a confrontation.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Runs into the garden to wait for him.

2. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?
(a) It worships vampires.
(b) All of the above.
(c) That it used to be about honesty and virtue.
(d) It makes vice attractive.

3. What happens to interfere with the plans the new friends have made?
(a) Eugene Onegin's father dies and he hands over the estate to creditors.
(b) His new friend is jailed for treason.
(c) His father sends Eugene to the country.
(d) They borrow too much money and are exiled.

4. What happens after Eugene Onegin is done responding to Tatyana's letter?
(a) She bursts into tears and runs away.
(b) He turns and coldly marches off, leaving her alone in the garden.
(c) He offers her his arm and they return to the house.
(d) None of the above.

5. What does the narrator say of Tatyana?
(a) She is trusting more than proud.
(b) Her love is deep and true.
(c) She heeds the call of passion in an honest artless fashion.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?

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

3. What was Eugene Onegin especially good at as a young man?

4. What does Vladimir Lensky tell the Larin household when he arrives?

5. What does Tatyana do after she is rejected by Eugene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the activities of a typical day in the life of Eugene Onegin.

2. How does Eugene get along with his neighbors in the country?

3. How does Eugene Onegin respond when Vladimir Lensky invites him to come with him to Tatyana's name day celebration? What changes his mind?

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

5. What does the nurse tell Tatyana of her own youth and marriage?

6. At the end of chapter two, the narrator introduces one of the topics that relates back to his theme of cycles. What is it, and what event in the story brings it up?

7. How do the neighbors views of Eugene's refusal of Tatyana vary from the narrator's?

8. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

9. What does the narrator think about Russian women who speak primarily French and only poor Russian and the movement to teach them better Russian?

10. Describe the character of Eugene Onegin.

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