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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?
(a) It worships vampires.
(b) All of the above.
(c) That it used to be about honesty and virtue.
(d) It makes vice attractive.

2. Which of the following best describes Tatyana?
(a) Friendly and loving.
(b) Dark and moody.
(c) Cold and distant.
(d) Pensive and withdrawn.

3. 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.

4. What happens after the death of Tatyana's father?
(a) Tatyana inherits the estate.
(b) His wife feels finally free.
(c) Everybody mourns him.
(d) Tatyana and her family are plunged into poverty.

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

6. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Take dinner with his father.
(b) Eat grouse he had shot that day.
(c) Spend the dinner hour with the influential people of the time.
(d) Have a gourmet dinner with another well known man about town.

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

8. What does Tatyana do when she heard the neighbors gossip about Eugene Onegin?
(a) She encourages the rumors.
(b) She falls in love with him.
(c) She defends him vociferously.
(d) She becomes angry he ever appeared at their doorstep.

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

10. Which of the following best characterizes the presence of the narrator in the story EUGENE ONEGIN?
(a) Present and convivial.
(b) Cold and distraught.
(c) Pivotal and active.
(d) Distant and preachy.

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

12. What do Eugene Onegin and his new friend do together to alleviate their depression?
(a) Fall in love.
(b) Hang out near the Neva river and talk.
(c) Dream of power.
(d) Gamble.

13. Which of the following set of characters was developed as a literary foil for each other?
(a) Olga and Tatyana.
(b) Eugene Onegin and Olga.
(c) Olga and Vladimir Lensky.
(d) Tatyana and Vladimir Lensky.

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

15. Who does Eugene Onegin befriend while he is depressed?
(a) Tatyana.
(b) His uncle.
(c) A wealthy Frenchman.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say of Tatyana?

2. What do the neighbors think of Eugene after he rejects Tatyana?

3. 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."

4. What message does Vladimir Lensky pass on to Eugene Onegin while visiting him in the winter?

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

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