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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 did Lensky fall during the duel?
(a) Lensky's gun backfires and kills him.
(b) Lensky is mortally killed before getting off a single shot.
(c) During the third round of shots, Lensky is killed.
(d) After wounding Onegin, Lensky is mortally shot.

2. What happens the first time that Tatyana goes to Eugene Onegin's estate after he has left?
(a) She breaks into the emptly house.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The caretakers discover her rifling through the house.
(d) Tatyana sees there are no traces of Eugene left in the house.

3. What happens shortly after Vladimir falls asleep the night before the duel?
(a) A letter arrives for him.
(b) Vladimir has terrible dreams of death.
(c) Zaretsky comes to wake him.
(d) Eugene Onegin knocks at the door but goes unheard.

4. When do Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky arrive at Tatyana's name day celebration?
(a) Just before the dancing starts.
(b) Before any other guests arrive.
(c) Just as Tatyana is sitting for her portrait.
(d) Partway through dinner.

5. Who travels with Tatyana to Moscow?
(a) Tatyana and the nurse travel light, expecting to buy fashionable clothes once they are there.
(b) An entire train of wagons needing eighteen horses and carrying nearly all their possessions.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Just Tatyana, her mother, and a footman travel to Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Tatyana and her mother stay when they arrive in Moscow?

2. As Vladimir leaves the name day celebration, what is he thinking?

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

4. How does the flight from the bear end in Tatyana's dream?

5. What is the state of affairs at the end of the novel, EUGENE ONEGIN?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character Zaretsky.

2. What does Tatyana do when she sees Eugene Onegin again for the first time in Moscow?

3. After some time of Tatyana paying him no attention whatsoever in Moscow, what does Eugene Onegin do to get through to her? What is the result?

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

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

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

7. How does Eugene Onegin agree to come to Tatyana's name day celebration?

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

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

10. What is the result of the Eugene Onegin's revenge at the name day celebration?

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