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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. Why does Eugene Onegin decide to go with Vladimir Lensky to dinner at the Larin household?
(a) To escape boredome at home.
(b) He has heard of Tatyana's charms.
(c) To support Vladimir Lensky.
(d) To meet the object of Vladimir's affection.

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

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

4. How does Eugene spend his summer after rejecting Tatyana?
(a) In isolation mindlessly occupied with trivial pleasures.
(b) In the city avoiding the country community.
(c) Thinking of Tatyana.
(d) Trying to make peace with the neighbors.

5. What was Eugene Onegin's reaction to Tatyana's letter?
(a) He laughed at it, thinking her simple.
(b) He was uncomfortable with the innapropriateness of it.
(c) He was moved for a moment to passion.
(d) He considered making her his next conquest.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the narrator read his poetry?

2. What does Eugene Onegin think of the country?

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

4. What change came about Eugene Onegin as a young man?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In chapter one the narrator is briefly a character in his own story. What interaction does the narrator have with Eugene?

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

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

5. Describe the character of Eugene Onegin.

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

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

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 happens when Eugene arrives at his uncle's house?

10. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

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