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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 the narrator want with the author of THE FEASTS?
(a) To show him where to take this story.
(b) To compose an elegy to Tatyana.
(c) None of the above.
(d) To translate Tatyana's letter into Russian.

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

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

4. What does Eugene Onegin think about as he travels to his ailing uncle's bedside?
(a) How boring tending his uncle will be.
(b) How much his uncle has done for him.
(c) He much he dislikes the country.
(d) How fleeting life is.

5. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Sleep late and walk around town until dinner.
(b) Make calls regarding the estate with his father.
(c) Rise early to hunt with his friends.
(d) Spend the day reading alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters were designed as literary foils for each other?

2. What could be found in Eugene Onegin's private rooms?

3. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?

4. As winter falls and he is stuck indoors, what is Eugene's only source of pleasure?

5. How does Eugene come to feel about Vladimir Lensky?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Eugene and the narrator differ about how they feel about the country? Why do you think the narrator tells us this?

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

5. How do Tatyana's and her nurse's diagnosis of her sleeplessness and distraction differ?

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

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

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

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

10. How does the narrator feel about women's feet and what does he say about them?

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