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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. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?

2. What does Tatyana say in her letter to Eugene Onegin?

3. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....

4. What can be said of Onegin's education?

5. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. There are two sets of literary foils, or opposites, that the reader is introduced to in the country. Who are the two sets and how are they opposites?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There's a lot to write about Alexander Pushkin. Write an essay about him. Make sure to include some information from all of the parts listed below, but emphasis can be put on any one or several of the parts.

Part 1. Heritage and life.

Part 2. Literary works.

Part 3. Political leaning and influence.

Part 4. Influence on literature.

Essay Topic 2

The narrator of the novel EUGENE ONEGIN is clearly adoring of his character Tatyana. Describe Tatyana.

Part 1. Describe the character Tatyana.

Part 2. How is Tatyana different than most girls that surround her?

Part 3. What trait of Tatyana's does the narrator make shine in her letter to Eugene Onegin?

Part 4. Does Tatyana change througout the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Both of Tatyana's mother and nurse were married by an arranged marriage, and in the end Tatyana herself marries a man that her parents chose. Discuss arranged marriages.

Part 1. Many cultures have histories of arranged marriages. What are their benefits and downsides?

Part 2. How did the arranged marriage work out for Tatyana's mother? Was she better off than if she had married the dandy gambler she had fancied in her youth?

Part 3. If her parents had not pressured her, Tatyana would have stayed single after Eugene rejected her. Was she better off married to the good and powerful man that she married?

Part 4. Looking at both Tatyana and her mother from a societal view instead of a personal one, are they better contributing members of society in the roles their parents have chosen for them or in the roles they would have chosen for themselves? Is this important?

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