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

2. How many acres does Pahom buy in his first land purchase?
(a) 300.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 40.
(d) 13,000.

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 asking to have them predict your future.
(d) If you were getting ready to do manual labor.

4. 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.
(b) Simon.
(c) Pahom's sister-in-law.
(d) Pahom's wife.

5. How does Pahom's wife defend their life to her sister?
(a) She says that someday Pahom will make them rich.
(b) She says that their life is quiet and ordinary.
(c) She says that living in the countryside is more moral.
(d) She says that their life is steady and safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the older sister brag about?

2. How far does Pahom walk in order to get to the new settlement?

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

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

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

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