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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. How do the Bashkirs react when Pahom asks for land?
(a) They seem puzzled.
(b) They seem sad.
(c) They seem amused.
(d) They seem angry.

2. At the end of the story, how much land does the narrator say Pahom really needed?
(a) The original land that he had in his home village.
(b) None.
(c) The land that he died to claim.
(d) Six feet, to be buried in.

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

4. Pahon sees that the land of the Bashkirs is "black as the seed of a poppy." What figure of speech is used here?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the night before his big walk, what does Pahom lie awake doing?

2. Although Pahom is afraid that he might actually die of the effort, why does he keep running toward the Bashkir?

3. 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"?

4. If Pahom's land is "arable," what is true of his land?

5. At first, what keeps Pahom from walking quickly?

(see the answer key)

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