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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of land is "fallow"?
(a) Land that is well-irrigated.
(b) Land that is being allowed to rest in between crops.
(c) Land that has been fertilized.
(d) Land that has many small hills and valleys.

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

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

4. What will Pahom do with "pasturage"?
(a) Plant trees there.
(b) Process milk for the market.
(c) House cattle in the winter.
(d) Let animals graze there.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land does the dealer tell Pahom he bought from the Bashkirs for 1,000 rubles?

2. How do the Bashkirs react when Pahom asks for land?

3. When, in the beginning of Chapter IV, Pahom "stood treat" to the elders, what does this mean he did?

4. Who is the man in the large fox-fur hat?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?

2. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?

3. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?

4. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?

5. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?

6. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?

7. What deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?

8. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?

9. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?

10. When Pahom and his family arrive in the new settlement beyond the Volga, what does he do first, and what is the result?

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