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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between Tatyana and Olga, what does the narrator make clear?

2. What is the narrator fond of writing in?

3. What does Vladimir Lensky do for Tatyana's father after he passes away?

4. What happens after Eugene Onegin is done responding to Tatyana's letter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the character of Eugene Onegin.

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

5. How does Eugene get along with his neighbors in the country?

6. What response does Eugene Onegin give Tatyana?

7. What does the narrator think about Russian women who speak primarily French and only poor Russian and the movement to teach them better Russian?

8. At the end of chapter two, the narrator introduces one of the topics that relates back to his theme of cycles. What is it, and what event in the story brings it up?

9. How do Eugene and the narrator differ about how they feel about the country? Why do you think the narrator tells us this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator of EUGENE ONEGIN takes a long side tangent to discuss women's feet. Write an essay exploring this tangent of Pushkin's.

Part 1. What is the narrator's attachment to women's feet?

Part 2. What theme is the narrator developing with this tangent into women's feet? How?

Part 3. What does the narrator mean when he says that women's words and feet are both faithless?

Essay Topic 2

EUGENE ONEGIN was written in verse reminiscent of sonnet form. Write an essay about Puskin's use of verse in EUGENE ONEGIN.

Part 1. What rhyme scheme does Pushkin use in EUGENE ONEGIN?

Part 2. What is iambic tetrameter?

Part 3. What effect does the verse achieve in the story of Eugene Onegin? How would the story have been different in prose?

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of the final chapter the narrator discusses his muse, poetry.

Part 1. In the beginning, the narrator shows his muse, or poetry, to society for his benefit. He lives through his poetry for the social scene. What character does this parallel? What is the message Pushkin is trying to tell us with this parallel?

Part 2. The poet's muse outlasts society. He finds inspiration in all types of people and it leads him to Tatyana in a country garden. What do Tatyana and the poet's muse represent now?

Part 3. What is the message about art Pushkin is making with this tangent about his muse?

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