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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tatyana do after she is rejected by Eugene?
(a) She spreads rumors about him.
(b) She becomes depressed and ill.
(c) She decides to go to the city for distraction.
(d) She throws herself into studies for escape.

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

6. What does the narrator want with the author of THE FEASTS?
(a) None of the above.
(b) To compose an elegy to Tatyana.
(c) To show him where to take this story.
(d) To translate Tatyana's letter into Russian.

7. Which of the following is true about Tatyana's nurse?
(a) She is as romantically inclined as Tatyana.
(b) She encourages Tatyana in her feelings about Eugene Onegin.
(c) She was married when she was thirteen in a marriage arranged by a match maker.
(d) She never married and has spent her whole life alone.

8. What happens just as Tatyana finishes writing her letter?
(a) Eugene Onegin arrives at the house.
(b) Tatyana leaves the letter and Olga finds it.
(c) Olga asks her to go visiting with her.
(d) The sun rises.

9. What do the new friends plan on doing together that never comes to pass?
(a) Winning lots of money.
(b) Rising to power.
(c) Marrying and raising kids.
(d) Traveling the world.

10. Which of the following characters were designed as literary foils for each other?
(a) Tatyana's father and Eugene Onegin.
(b) Eugene Onegin and his neighbors.
(c) Olga and her mother.
(d) Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky.

11. Who is Tatyana?
(a) A serving girl in the Larin household.
(b) Olga's best friend.
(c) A distant cousin living in the Larin household.
(d) Olga's older sister.

12. What is the first thing Eugene Onegin gives up as he becomes depressed?
(a) Women.
(b) Prospects of running the estate.
(c) Hunting.
(d) His title.

13. What brought Tatyana's mother relief from her sadness as she grew up?
(a) A large and loving family.
(b) She met and married another man.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Time passing and the role of housewife.

14. Why does Eugene Onegin decide to go with Vladimir Lensky to dinner at the Larin household?
(a) To meet the object of Vladimir's affection.
(b) To support Vladimir Lensky.
(c) To escape boredome at home.
(d) He has heard of Tatyana's charms.

15. What happens to interfere with the plans the new friends have made?
(a) They borrow too much money and are exiled.
(b) His father sends Eugene to the country.
(c) Eugene Onegin's father dies and he hands over the estate to creditors.
(d) His new friend is jailed for treason.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eugene spend his summer after rejecting Tatyana?

2. What does Eugene Onegin assume dinner at the Larin household will be like?

3. What does Tatyana do when she heard the neighbors gossip about Eugene Onegin?

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

5. What can be said of Onegin's education?

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