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

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

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

4. When Pahom is only on the second leg of his walk, what does he notice?
(a) The Bashkirs seem to be getting closer.
(b) It is already noon.
(c) He has not walked anything like the distance he thought he would.
(d) He is almost too tired to finish the walk.

5. 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) It is too expensive to rent land.
(c) The land is too far from the village.
(d) The land is not good for growing what he wants to grow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Bashkirs characterized when Pahom first meets them?

2. What does the stranger staying at Pahom's house overnight tell Pahom?

3. The haze of heat that makes it difficult for Pahom to see clearly might logically be meant to remind the reader of what?

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

5. In Chapter V, whom does Pahom leave in charge of his homestead while he is gone?

(see the answer key)

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