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

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

3. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?

4. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?

5. Which of the following does Eugene tell Tatyana in response to her letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

2. Describe Vladimir Lensky.

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

4. What response does Eugene Onegin give Tatyana?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. How does Eugene get along with his neighbors in the country?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator, who often refers to himself as the poet, plays with poetry throughout his own poem. Discuss the following topics, or any others, of Pushkins humorous and playful treatment of poetry throughout his poem.

Part 1. Vladimir is a poet but Eugene cannot write poetry.

Part 2. Vladimir writes insipid poetry the narrator is not fond of.

Part 3. The narrator is reduced to reading his poetry to ducks and scares them away when he does so.

Part 4. In his despair at the end of the story, Eugene nearly resorts to poetry.

Essay Topic 2

The narrator comments at one point in the novel that the heroes of novels were once consumed with a passion for the right and just, defeating vice and sin, but today novels glorify vices, and vampires and egotists become heroes.

Part 1. Pushkin wrote this comment in the early 1800s. Does it sound like something someone would say today? Where have you heard such accusations before?

Part 2. Give some examples of stories from today, that back up Pushkin's statement.

Part 3. What can be inferred from the timelessness of this statement?

Essay Topic 3

Pushkin creates several literary foils for his main characters in the novel EUGENE ONEGIN. Discuss those foils and what they show us.

Part 1. Vladimir as a literary foil for Eugene.

Part 2. Olga as a literary foil for Tatyana.

Part 3. Onegin and Tatyana as literary foils for each other.

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