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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. What is the estate like that Eugene Onegin inherited from his uncle?
(a) A tasteful old style place in beautiful countryside.
(b) Historical and in bad disrepair.
(c) Extensive lands worked by hundreds of peasants.
(d) A huge modern home representative of the uncles status.

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

3. Which of the following does Eugene tell Tatyana in response to her letter?
(a) She should learn restraint or others will hurt her.
(b) She will move on to another quickly.
(c) All of the above.
(d) His tender love must be as that of a brother.

4. What does Vladimir Lensky write poetry about?
(a) The power of thought.
(b) Death.
(c) The injustice of the political system.
(d) Love.

5. What is the first thing Tatyana does when she can't sleep at night?
(a) Tatyana reads romance novels to distract her mind so she can sleep.
(b) Tatyana runs through the forest to look at Eugene Onegin's house.
(c) Tatyana wakes up her nurse and asks her about love in the old days.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describes Vladimir Lensky?

3. What does the narrator say about the letter that Tatyana writes?

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

5. What does the narrator say of Tatyana?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the nurse tell Tatyana of her own youth and marriage?

2. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

3. What do Vladimir Lensky and Eugne Onegin discuss? What is their favorite topic?

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

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

6. What response does Eugene Onegin give Tatyana?

7. What does the gossip say about Eugene Onegin shortly after his first visit to the Larin household, and what result does it have?

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

9. What is the story of Olga and Tatyana's mother's marriage?

10. What is Eugene Onegin's first impression of both of the Larin sisters?

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