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

2. Why doesn't Eugene Onegin want to go to Tatyana's name day celebration?
(a) He does not like the Larin family.
(b) He doesn't want to face Tatyana again.
(c) The crowd of locals that will attend.
(d) He is afraid of what people will say about him.

3. What caused Tatyana's mother great sadness in her youth?
(a) She was separated from the man she loved to marry Tatyana's father.
(b) Her family disowned her when she eloped with her husband.
(c) Her true love died in battle.
(d) Her parents died when she was very young.

4. What does Vladimir Lensky tell the Larin household when he arrives?
(a) Eugene will be joining them but he was delayed by the mail.
(b) Eugene has just announced he is returning to the city.
(c) He bears good tidings.
(d) He has delivered the letter Olga gave to him.

5. What does Eugene find when he reaches his uncle's estate in the country?
(a) That he lacks all his beloved comforts of home.
(b) That country girls are charming.
(c) That his father has sent all his books to him there.
(d) That his uncle has already died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the nurse think of Tatyana when she sees her distracted and distraught?

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

3. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?

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

5. What does the narrator find charming in women?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Vladimir Lensky.

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

9. Even while Tatyana is recovering from her rejection, how are Olga and Vladimir doing?

10. 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?

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