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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What advice does the narrator give to the reader about Russian balls?
(a) Families should keep their daughters well in sight.
(b) It is the best way to spend a long winter.
(c) Be careful which ones to go to as they define who you are.
(d) Be sure to look your best.

3. On a typical day, the young Eugene Onegin would....
(a) Study until late.
(b) Make a brief appearance at a ballet to look for women to seduce.
(c) Gather with friends and fellow land owners.
(d) Fight with his father as his father became drunk.

4. What do the neighbors say after Eugene had dinner at the Larin estate?
(a) That the Larins had betrayed the community.
(b) That perhaps he wasn't so bad after all.
(c) None of the above.
(d) That he and Tatyana are engaged.

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(c) Pensive and withdrawn.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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What can be said of Eugene Onegin's father?

5. What does the narrator confess to once having spent his last money on?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eugene Onegin receive Tatyana's letter?

2. What is Eugene doing when the novel opens? How does he feel about it?

3. Describe the character of Eugene Onegin.

4. What chastisement does Eugene Onegin give Tatyana at the end of his response to her letter?

5. What happens when Eugene arrives at his uncle's house?

6. Who is Vladimir in love with? What is she like?

7. In chapter one the narrator is briefly a character in his own story. What interaction does the narrator have with Eugene?

8. How is Tatyana after being rejected by Eugene Onegin?

9. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

10. How do the neighbors views of Eugene's refusal of Tatyana vary from the narrator's?

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