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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapters VII-IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reaction do the peasants have when they hear rumors about the sale of the land?
(a) They go to court to try to add the land to the commune.
(b) They decide that they need to buy it themselves.
(c) They celebrate, because they do not like the landowner.
(d) They beg the woman not to sell her land.

2. What does Pahom observe seems to be true about the land?
(a) The farther he goes, the better it gets.
(b) Some of the land seems to already be planted with crops.
(c) For some reason it feels like he is walking uphill, though the land looks flat.
(d) He will need to walk farther than he guessed in order to access water.

3. Which character thinks "I'll give you land enough; and by means of that land I will get you into my power"?
(a) Simon.
(b) The local landowner.
(c) The devil.
(d) Pahom's brother-in-law.

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

5. What is the "kumiss" that the Bashkir women make?
(a) A cow's milk cheese.
(b) Fermented horse milk.
(c) A goat's milk cheese.
(d) Fermented sheep's milk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are the Bashkirs characterized when Pahom first meets them?

3. In Chapter V, whom does Pahom leave in charge of his homestead while he is gone?

4. What does Pahom stop to do at noon?

5. What advantage does Pahom see to owning land in the new settlement?

(see the answer key)

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