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

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

3. What is an important value among the Bashkirs?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Love for the land.
(c) Education.
(d) Reciprocity.

4. When Pahom is only on the second leg of his walk, what does he notice?
(a) He is almost too tired to finish the walk.
(b) He has not walked anything like the distance he thought he would.
(c) It is already noon.
(d) The Bashkirs seem to be getting closer.

5. 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 well-irrigated.
(d) Land that is being allowed to rest in between crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. The haze of heat that makes it difficult for Pahom to see clearly might logically be meant to remind the reader of what?

2. At first, what keeps Pahom from walking quickly?

3. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, what does the expression "the morning red was beginning to kindle" mean?

4. What does Pahom stop to do at noon?

5. At the end of Pahom's dream, just before he wakes, where is Pahom?

(see the answer key)

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