View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tatyana say in her letter to Eugene Onegin?
(a) She shrinks with shame and fear.
(b) All of the above.
(c) She would have kept her love secret if she knew she would occasionally see him
(d) She wishes he had never come to the country.

3. What does Eugene Onegin assume dinner at the Larin household will be like?
(a) A traditional Russian gathering.
(b) Sincerely welcoming of guests.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Tedious and boring.

4. What was Tatyana most fond of growing up?
(a) Learning city manners.
(b) Dark stories.
(c) Playing with other girls.
(d) Sewing.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Eugene Onegin want to go to Tatyana's name day celebration?

2. Why does Vladimir Lensky want to meet Eugene Onegin?

3. What does the narrator say of the literature of his time?

4. What happens to interfere with the plans the new friends have made?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Tatyana? What is she like?

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

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

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

5. Describe the activities of a typical day in the life of Eugene Onegin.

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

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

8. There are two sets of literary foils, or opposites, that the reader is introduced to in the country. Who are the two sets and how are they opposites?

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

10. Describe Vladimir Lensky.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 960 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample