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

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

3. The Bashkirs "tether" their colts behind their homes. What does this mean that they do?
(a) They keep young cows tied behind their homes.
(b) They keep young horses in pens behind their homes.
(c) They keep young horses tied behind their homes.
(d) They keep young cows in pens behind their homes.

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

5. Once Pahom is able to rent land to put in more crops, what is his next complaint?
(a) The land is not good for growing what he wants to grow.
(b) The land is too far from the village.
(c) The land dealers are cheating him.
(d) It is too expensive to rent land.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why can Pahom not plant the same crop on his land in the second year?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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