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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 has been fertilized.
(b) Land that has many small hills and valleys.
(c) Land that is being allowed to rest in between crops.
(d) Land that is well-irrigated.

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

3. When, in the beginning of Chapter IV, Pahom "stood treat" to the elders, what does this mean he did?
(a) Helped them with a project.
(b) Asked for a hearing.
(c) Gave them gifts.
(d) Made a speech.

4. What advantage does Pahom see to owning land in the new settlement?
(a) The dealers will not be able to cheat him.
(b) All of his acres will be together in one piece of land.
(c) His neighbors will stop trespassing on his land.
(d) He will get a better price for his crops.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the reader told is "all" the Bashkir men care about?

3. When Pahom "inquired" how to find the Bashkirs, what did he do?

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

5. The Bashkirs "tether" their colts behind their homes. What does this mean that they do?

(see the answer key)

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