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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapters IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of land is "fallow"?
(a) Land that is being allowed to rest in between crops.
(b) Land that is well-irrigated.
(c) Land that has been fertilized.
(d) Land that has many small hills and valleys.

2. Who is the man in the large fox-fur hat?
(a) Pahom's employee.
(b) Another Russian who has come to ask for land.
(c) The man who owns the land that Pahom wants.
(d) The Bashkir chief.

3. Which character says that "Loss and gain are brothers twain"?
(a) The local landowner.
(b) Pahom's sister-in-law.
(c) Pahom's wife.
(d) Pahom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land does Pahom agree to buy in the new settlement?

2. What does the expression "racked his brains" mean?

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

4. What is surprising about the chief of the Bashkirs?

5. What does Pahom tell the Bashkirs is wrong with the land where he comes from?

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