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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Tatyana's mother great sadness in her youth?
(a) Her parents died when she was very young.
(b) Her family disowned her when she eloped with her husband.
(c) Her true love died in battle.
(d) She was separated from the man she loved to marry Tatyana's father.

2. What did Eugene Onegin do that angered his new neighbors in the countryside?
(a) He institutes rent instead of unpaid labor from the peasants.
(b) He rides away whenever they come visit.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He does not address them with sufficient respect.

3. How did Tatyana's parents meet?
(a) They met and eloped when he was in the army.
(b) The were paired through an arranged marriage.
(c) They were both part of the fashionable Moscow crowd.
(d) None of the above.

4. Which of the following does Eugene tell Tatyana in response to her letter?
(a) All of the above.
(b) He is not worthy of her virtues.
(c) He would cease to love her with time.
(d) He would be an angry, sullen, coldly jealous husband.

5. How does Eugene come to feel about Vladimir Lensky?
(a) Eugene adores and respects him.
(b) Eugene finds him trite and repetitive.
(c) Lensky's passion depresses Eugene.
(d) Eugene comes to hate Lensky for being happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fires first in the duel between Onegin and Lensky?

2. Who is Tatyana?

3. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?

4. What does the narrator mourn after describing Vladimir Lensky's death?

5. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?

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