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

2. Which character thinks that "Busy as we are from childhood tilling Mother Earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads"?
(a) Pahom's wife.
(b) Pahom's sister-in-law.
(c) Pahom.
(d) Simon.

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

4. In which situation might someone "grease your palm"?
(a) If you were trying to do something you had never done before.
(b) If you were getting ready to do manual labor.
(c) If you were asking to have them predict your future.
(d) If you were judging a contest they were in.

5. What is Pahom's first reaction when he learns that people are moving to a new settlement?
(a) He tries to get their share of the commune lands.
(b) He worries that there will not be enough workers for his land.
(c) He wants to sell his land and move.
(d) He thinks that maybe he can buy their land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pahom's reaction to the trouble with the steward?

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

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

4. Who calls Pahom's land a "narrow hole"?

5. Where is Pahom when his wife and her sister are talking?

(see the answer key)

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