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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 is the "kumiss" that the Bashkir women make?
(a) Fermented horse milk.
(b) A goat's milk cheese.
(c) Fermented sheep's milk.
(d) A cow's milk cheese.

2. How does Pahom react to his dream?
(a) He thinks that it is probably a good omen.
(b) He finds it funny.
(c) He is horrified, but shakes the feeling off.
(d) He decides that it might be better to go home immediately.

3. What does the chief of the Bashkirs use to mark the spot where Pahom will begin his walk?
(a) Bashkir's servant.
(b) A spade.
(c) A cart.
(d) His hat.

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) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Understatement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pahom hesitate before setting out on his walk?

2. While the sisters talk, who is hiding behind the oven?

3. What agreement does Pahom come to with the landowner?

4. At the end of Pahom's dream, just before he wakes, where is Pahom?

5. When, in the beginning of Chapter IV, Pahom "stood treat" to the elders, what does this mean he did?

(see the answer key)

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