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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator confess to once having spent his last money on?

2. What is the narrator fond of writing in?

3. Why does Eugene Onegin decide to go with Vladimir Lensky to dinner at the Larin household?

4. Which of the following best describes how the narrator describes Olga?

5. What does Olga think of Vladimir Lensky's poetry about her?

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. Describe the character of Eugene Onegin.

3. Describe Vladimir Lensky.

4. At the end of chapter two, the narrator introduces one of the topics that relates back to his theme of cycles. What is it, and what event in the story brings it up?

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

6. Who is Vladimir in love with? What is she like?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At Tatyana's name-day celebration, there is much that happens on a superficial level. Discuss the symbolism and importance of the events of the name-day celebration.

Part 1. The celebration is supposedly all about Tatyana. In actuality, how much is truly about her?

Part 2. Eugene is the only person that notices Tatyana's distress. Why does he notice and no one else?

Part 3. Why does Eugene decide to take revenge on Vladimir, and what does he do? What does he miscalculate in his actions?

Essay Topic 2

The duel between Eugene and Vladimir is a defining moment in the story. Write about the duel in Eugene Onegin.

Part 1. What is the cause for the duel? Is it a valid reason or more perceived than real?

Part 2. What does his willingness to follow through with the duel tell us about Eugene?

Part 3. How do Vladimir and Eugene spend the night before the duel? What does this tell us about them?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator of EUGENE ONEGIN takes a long side tangent to discuss women's feet. Write an essay exploring this tangent of Pushkin's.

Part 1. What is the narrator's attachment to women's feet?

Part 2. What theme is the narrator developing with this tangent into women's feet? How?

Part 3. What does the narrator mean when he says that women's words and feet are both faithless?

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