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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 say in her letter to Eugene Onegin?
(a) She would have kept her love secret if she knew she would occasionally see him
(b) She wishes he had never come to the country.
(c) She shrinks with shame and fear.
(d) All of the above.

2. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?
(a) The injustice of the political system.
(b) Love.
(c) The power of thought.
(d) Death.

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

4. How does Vladimir Lensky feel about Olga?
(a) He loves her passionately.
(b) He is timid around her and nervous.
(c) He finds her boring.
(d) He finds her bossy and brazen.

5. To whom does the narrator claim to devote this poem?
(a) The feet of Terpsichore.
(b) Nobody.
(c) To the yet unforeseen muse of the future.
(d) His lost love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eugene Onegin assume dinner at the Larin household will be like?

2. What does the narrator find charming in women?

3. Why does Tatyana send the nurse away at night?

4. What cycle does Pushkin write about at the end of Chapter 2?

5. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of Olga and Tatyana's mother's marriage?

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. What does the gossip say about Eugene Onegin shortly after his first visit to the Larin household, and what result does it have?

5. 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?

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

7. What do Vladimir Lensky and Eugne Onegin discuss? What is their favorite topic?

8. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

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

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

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