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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapters IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a steward?
(a) Someone who rents the land that they farm or graze animals on.
(b) Someone who takes care of someone else's property.
(c) A shop owner.
(d) An innkeeper.

2. What does the older sister brag about?
(a) Her housekeeping skill.
(b) Her comfortable life.
(c) Her clever children.
(d) Her loyal husband.

3. What is the reader told is "all" the Bashkir men care about?
(a) Eating, drinking, and making music.
(b) Taking care of their herds of animals.
(c) Planting successful crops.
(d) Making strong trade relationships as they travel.

4. What bothers Pahom the most about the stripping of bark from his trees?
(a) He hates the idea of a stranger being on his land.
(b) He hates the idea of trees being wasted in this way.
(c) Whoever did it cut down a whole clump of trees.
(d) Whoever did it also let his cows out of their pen.

5. What does Pahom tell the Bashkirs is wrong with the land where he comes from?
(a) It is crowded and overworked.
(b) The commune does not distribute it fairly.
(c) It is too far away from water.
(d) It will not support him and his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "kumiss" that the Bashkir women make?

2. The story opens with two sisters. What does the older sister's husband do for a living?

3. Whom does Pahom accuse of stripping his trees?

4. When the younger sister is "piqued," what is she feeling?

5. How much more land does Pahom have for his use when he and his family are first living at the new settlement?

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