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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eugene Onegin assume dinner at the Larin household will be like?
(a) Sincerely welcoming of guests.
(b) All of the above.
(c) A traditional Russian gathering.
(d) Tedious and boring.

2. What does the narrator say about cold and distant women?
(a) All of the above.
(b) They even get bored with praise and sighs of passion.
(c) Their joy is striking men with fear and then luring them back again.
(d) He flees from them in terror.

3. How does Tatyana imagine herself and Eugene Onegin?
(a) As the hero and heroine of the romance novels she reads.
(b) As representing the best of the city life and country life.
(c) As engaged.
(d) As the leaders of opposing troops on the battle field.

4. What can be said of Onegin's education?
(a) It was just enough for him to pass as well educated.
(b) It offered him an escape from his life through classic literature.
(c) He was never exposed to great minds and so lacked inspiration.
(d) It was a rigorous regime inflicted on Onegin since he was small.

5. What can be said of Eugene Onegin's father?
(a) He was dissappointed in Onegin.
(b) He devoted everything to his son.
(c) He was devoted to the care of his estate.
(d) He was irresponsible with money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes how the narrator describes Olga?

2. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?

3. What does Eugene find when he reaches his uncle's estate in the country?

4. What happens just as Tatyana finishes writing her letter?

5. What cycle does Pushkin write about at the end of Chapter 2?

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