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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 Eugene Onegin think when he first sees Tatyana at a ball?

2. What does Eugene Onegin do after the duel with Vladimir Lensky?

3. Which of the following best characterizes Eugene Onegin when he lived in the country?

4. What does the note from Vladimir Lensky to Eugene Onegin the day after the name day celebration contain?

5. What does the wax in the water basin predict for Tatyana?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tatyana feel about the prospect of going to Moscow?

2. What is the special "look" that Eugene gives Tatyana and how does it affect her?

3. What does Tatyana say to Eugene as he kneels at her feet in her home in Moscow?

4. What happens up to and during the duel between Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky once all parties have arrived?

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

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

7. What do Tatyana's mother and her friends decide to do? Why?

8. How does Eugene Onegin spend the night and early morning before the duel? Can anything be inferred from this?

9. How does the interactions between Eugene Onegin and Olga end at the name day celebration. What does Tatyana think?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Eugene's rejection of Tatyana in the garden was complex and it's consequences manifold. Write an essay about this pivotal interaction.

Part 1. Although Eugene was being honest to Tatyana, was he also being a coward? Did he miss his chance for salvation?

Part 2. Was Eugene correct in his foretelling of what their married life would be like? Could things have been different?

Part 3. In the end of the novel Tatyana admits she is unhappy in her position and still loves Eugene. Was his rejection of her in the garden ultimately to her benefit despite this?

Essay Topic 3

Tatyana's dream is rife with symbolism and foreshadowing. Discuss Tatyana's dream.

Part 1. Who is the bear?

Part 2. What is the party of monsters? What does it mean that Eugene is chief amongst the monsters?

Part 3. What is the symbolism of the end of Tatyana's dream - both the being taken by Eugene and by the fight?

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