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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vladimir Lensky feel about Olga?
(a) He is timid around her and nervous.
(b) He loves her passionately.
(c) He finds her bossy and brazen.
(d) He finds her boring.

2. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Olga, and not Tatyana, as being like her mother.
(c) Tatyana as his clear favorite.
(d) Tatyana and Olga as opposites.

3. What does the nurse think of Tatyana when she sees her distracted and distraught?
(a) That she is worried for father's health.
(b) That she has read too many romance novels.
(c) That she loves the neighbor's son.
(d) That she must be ill.

4. What verdict did the neighbor's scrutiny have when it turned to Vladimir Lensky?
(a) He would be a good match for their daughters.
(b) None of the above.
(c) He was as eccentric as Eugene Onegin.
(d) He had returned from abroad too foreign.

5. What does Eugene Onegin think about as he travels to his ailing uncle's bedside?
(a) How boring tending his uncle will be.
(b) He much he dislikes the country.
(c) How fleeting life is.
(d) How much his uncle has done for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does the narrator give to the reader about Russian balls?

2. Why does Vladimir Lensky leave the company of Eugene Onegin each evening once their friendship is established?

3. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....

4. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?

5. Who is the narrator referring to when he says Tatyana is "relying on a tyrant's honour, you've now resigned to him your fate."

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