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

2. Why does Pahom end up taking his neighbors to court?
(a) They steal his crops.
(b) They disagree about the boundary of his land.
(c) Their animals trespass on his land.
(d) The refuse to pay him the rent that they owe him.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Whom does Pahom accuse of stripping his trees?

5. The story opens with two sisters. What does the older sister's husband do for a living?

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