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

2. In Chapter V, whom does Pahom leave in charge of his homestead while he is gone?
(a) His "man" (employee).
(b) His sons.
(c) His brother-in-law.
(d) His wife.

3. How far does Pahom walk in order to get to the new settlement?
(a) 3 miles.
(b) 30 miles.
(c) 300 miles.
(d) 130 miles.

4. Pahon sees that the land of the Bashkirs is "black as the seed of a poppy." What figure of speech is used here?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What does the dealer tell Pahom he did before bargaining for the Bashkir land?
(a) Passed a physical challenge.
(b) Gave them gifts.
(c) Answered a riddle.
(d) Lived among them for a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land is the chief offering Pahom?

2. Who is the first person that the local landowner offers to sell her land to?

3. Where is Pahom when his wife and her sister are talking?

4. If Pahom's land is "arable," what is true of his land?

5. On the night before his big walk, what does Pahom lie awake doing?

(see the answer key)

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