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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 note from Vladimir Lensky to Eugene Onegin the day after the name day celebration contain?
(a) A chastisement of his behavior.
(b) A challenge to a duel.
(c) A tirade about Eugene's betrayal.
(d) A poem about Olga's faithlessness.

2. What is likely to have happened after the name day celebration had Zaretsky not intervened?
(a) Vladimir Lensky would have confronted Olga before Eugene Onegin.
(b) The duel would not have been executed correctly according to tradition.
(c) Vladimir Lensky may have gone to murder Eugene that night.
(d) The whole affair might have blown over without a duel after emotions cooled.

3. When Tatyana flees from him, what does the bear in her dream do?
(a) Turn into Eugene Onegin.
(b) Follows at her heels.
(c) Continually reappear in front of her.
(d) Fall into the raging river.

4. What action does Eugene Onegin decide to do when Tatyana remains cold to him in Moscow?
(a) Write a letter.
(b) Profess his love to her in person.
(c) Travel again to distract himself.
(d) Challenge the prince to a duel.

5. What is Olga's future after losing Vladimir Lensky?
(a) She starts reading Vladimir Lensky's poetry and falls in love with him all over again.
(b) She soon moves on and marries a soldier.
(c) She mourns for a year in solitude.
(d) She becomes a less naive, but bitter, person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say speaks to us from the grave?

2. What does the narrator communicate about his muse?

3. In the spring after the winter that Vladimir Lensky died, what is the state of his grave?

4. What is the consequence to Eugene Onegin's letter to Tatyana?

5. When do Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky arrive at Tatyana's name day celebration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tatyana dream?

2. How does Eugene feel about seeing Tatyana again in Moscow?

3. What does Tatyana look for and find in Eugene's books? How?

4. How does Tatyana feel about the local superstitions? What do they do for her?

5. After she arrived, what does Tatyana think of Moscow and being re-united with her relatives?

6. Why is Eugene Onegin angry at Vladimir Lensky at the name day celebration?

7. What happens to Olga after Vladimir Lensky's death?

8. What is Vladimir's experience when he visits Olga the day after the name day celebration?

9. What revenge does Eugene Onegin take on Vladimir Lensky at Tatyana's name day celebration?

10. How does Vladimir Lensky spend the night before the duel?

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