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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 does the trader tell Pahom about the Bashkirs?
(a) They are clever bargainers.
(b) They do not care about their land at all.
(c) They have the intelligence of sheep.
(d) They will do whatever their chiefs tell them to do.

2. How do the Bashkirs react to Pahom's arrival?
(a) They prepare a feast for him.
(b) They are very suspicious.
(c) They send for their chief.
(d) They ignore him.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How much land does Pahom agree to buy in the new settlement?

4. What is the reader told is "all" the Bashkir men care about?

5. What crop does Pahom grow at the new settlement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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