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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapters VII-IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character says that "Loss and gain are brothers twain"?
(a) The local landowner.
(b) Pahom.
(c) Pahom's sister-in-law.
(d) Pahom's wife.

2. Who is the man in the large fox-fur hat?
(a) The Bashkir chief.
(b) Pahom's employee.
(c) The man who owns the land that Pahom wants.
(d) Another Russian who has come to ask for land.

3. Once Pahom is able to rent land to put in more crops, what is his next complaint?
(a) The land dealers are cheating him.
(b) The land is not good for growing what he wants to grow.
(c) It is too expensive to rent land.
(d) The land is too far from the village.

4. The haze of heat that makes it difficult for Pahom to see clearly might logically be meant to remind the reader of what?
(a) How tired Pahom is.
(b) That it is summer.
(c) The earlier threat neighbors made to burn his buildings.
(d) The heat of hell.

5. While the sisters talk, who is hiding behind the oven?
(a) The devil.
(b) The innkeeper.
(c) Pahom's brother-in-law.
(d) Simon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pahom end up taking his neighbors to court?

2. Which word is a synonym for "haggle"?

3. What is surprising about the chief of the Bashkirs?

4. What will Pahom do with "pasturage"?

5. When, in the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Bashkirs "ascended" the shikhan, what did they do?

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