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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 note from Vladimir Lensky to Eugene Onegin the day after the name day celebration contain?

2. What is likely to have happened after the name day celebration had Zaretsky not intervened?

3. When Tatyana flees from him, what does the bear in her dream do?

4. What action does Eugene Onegin decide to do when Tatyana remains cold to him in Moscow?

5. What is Olga's future after losing Vladimir Lensky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tatyana dream?

2. How does Eugene feel about seeing Tatyana again in Moscow?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What revenge does Eugene Onegin take on Vladimir Lensky at Tatyana's name day celebration?

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

The novel EUGENE ONEGIN is told by a narrator whose voice is a constant presence despite not being a character in the story. Write an essay discussing Pushkin's use of the narrator.

Part 1. Is the narrator Pushkin?

Part 2. How does the narrator change the story?

Part 3. Do you like his use of the narrator? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

EUGENE ONEGIN was written in verse reminiscent of sonnet form. Write an essay about Puskin's use of verse in EUGENE ONEGIN.

Part 1. What rhyme scheme does Pushkin use in EUGENE ONEGIN?

Part 2. What is iambic tetrameter?

Part 3. What effect does the verse achieve in the story of Eugene Onegin? How would the story have been different in prose?

Essay Topic 3

Pushkin lived through a very interesting time in Russian history. Write an essay about the early 1800s in Russia, and the time that he lived in and the novel EUGENE ONEGIN took place in.

Part 1. What was the political situation of Russia in the early 1800s?

Part 2. How did the political climate affect Pushkin?

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