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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Chapters I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the stranger staying at Pahom's house overnight tell Pahom?
(a) That people in the new settlement beyond the Volga are making good money.
(b) Life in the countryside is difficult but secure.
(c) Life in town is very risky.
(d) The Bashkir are selling land very cheaply.

2. What problem does the new steward create for the local peasants?
(a) He refuses to sell seed to those who do not own their own land.
(b) He demands payment of the peasants' outstanding loans.
(c) He fines them when their animals trespass on his employer's land.
(d) He does not supervise his cattle properly.

3. Where is Pahom when his wife and her sister are talking?
(a) Working in the field.
(b) Bringing in loads of wood.
(c) Resting in his cot.
(d) Lying on the stove.

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

5. What agreement does Pahom come to with the landowner?
(a) He will pay for the land over the next ten years, one-tenth at a time.
(b) He will work for her until the land is paid for.
(c) He will pay less for the land because he can pay for it all in advance.
(d) He will pay for half of the land up front and half within two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says that "Loss and gain are brothers twain"?

2. What reaction do the peasants have when they hear rumors about the sale of the land?

3. Whom does Pahom accuse of stripping his trees?

4. What does Pahom's wife say may happen to a man in town?

5. Who is the first person that the local landowner offers to sell her land to?

(see the answer key)

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