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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. How do the Bashkirs make their living?
(a) They are traders.
(b) They are nomadic herders.
(c) They are land dealers.
(d) They are farmers.

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

3. How many sons is it implied that Pahom has?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. How much more land does Pahom have for his use when he and his family are first living at the new settlement?
(a) Fifteen times as much as in his village.
(b) Three times as much as in his village.
(c) Thirty times as much as in his village.
(d) A hundred times as much as in his village.

5. What crop does Pahom grow at the new settlement?
(a) Corn.
(b) Beets.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Turnips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reaction do the peasants have when they hear rumors about the sale of the land?

2. How does Pahom's wife defend their life to her sister?

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

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

5. Which word is a synonym for "haggle"?

(see the answer key)

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