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

2. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?
(a) His title.
(b) Prospects of running the estate.
(c) Women.
(d) Hunting.

3. What does the narrator say about cold and distant women?
(a) They even get bored with praise and sighs of passion.
(b) He flees from them in terror.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Their joy is striking men with fear and then luring them back again.

4. How did Tatyana's parents meet?
(a) They were both part of the fashionable Moscow crowd.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The were paired through an arranged marriage.
(d) They met and eloped when he was in the army.

5. As winter falls and he is stuck indoors, what is Eugene's only source of pleasure?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Driving his troika.
(c) The visits from Vladimir Lensky.
(d) Re-reading Tatyana'sletter.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?

4. Who does the narrator say is the best person to depend on for love and trust?

5. Why does Vladimir Lensky want to meet Eugene Onegin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Tatyana after being rejected by Eugene Onegin?

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

5. What events unfold when Tatyana hears Eugene Onegin's horse arriving?

6. What is Eugene Onegin's first impression of both of the Larin sisters?

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

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

9. What happens when Eugene arrives at his uncle's house?

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

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