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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. How many people have come to celebrate Tatyana's name day celebration?

2. How does Eugene Onegin dancing with Olga end?

3. Who, according to the narrator, does Vladimir Lensky's tombstone still cause to tear up?

4. What is Tatyana like when we see her at the ball in the last chapter?

5. When do Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky arrive at Tatyana's name day celebration?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the character Zaretsky.

3. After some time of Tatyana paying him no attention whatsoever in Moscow, what does Eugene Onegin do to get through to her? What is the result?

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

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

6. What does Tatyana dream?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Tatyana and Eugene reunite in Moscow at the end of the story, their positions are very different. Discuss Eugene and Tatyana at the end of the story.

Part 1. Have Tatyana and Eugene changed by the end of the book? How?

Part 2. What are the dynamics between Tatyana and Eugene in Moscow?

Part 3. Why is Tatyana attractive to Eugene now? Does he really care for her or merely want what he can't have?

Part 4. How are Tatyana and Eugene still the same as they were in the country?

Essay Topic 2

The novel EUGENE ONEGIN has a theme of cycles that keeps coming up. Using passages from the book, discuss Pushkin's theme of cycles for each of the following topics.

Part 1. Generations

Part 2. Seasons

Part 3. Life and Death

Part 4. Passion

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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