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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What reaction do the peasants have when they hear rumors about the sale of the land?
2. What agreement does Pahom come to with the landowner?
3. How does Pahom's wife defend their life to her sister?
4. What problem does the new steward create for the local peasants?
5. The story opens with two sisters. What does the older sister's husband do for a living?
Short Essay Questions
1. What sequence of events with Simon follows Pahom's discovery of the stripped trees?
2. How does Pahom's relationship with his community change, and what are two specific pieces of evidence for this change?
3. When the devil overhears Pahom's thoughts, what does he vow to do?
4. What prevents the peasants from buying the nearby landowner's land as a group instead of as individuals?
5. In Chapter I, what is ironic about where Pahom is while he listens to his wife and her sister talk?
6. What sacrifices do Pahom and his family make for the first plot of land that they buy?
7. What changes the relationship between the woman who owns land near the village and the peasants, and how does the relationship change?
8. Pahom is most angry at the neighbor who has cut down his trees because whoever it was did not just take one or two trees but instead cut down a whole clump of trees. Why does this make Pahom angry, and what is ironic about his anger?
9. In what two ways is Pahom's first decision to buy land different from his later decisions?
10. In Chapter I, what is ironic about the conversation between the two sisters?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you offer both textual and historical evidence that several characters in "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" can be read allegorically.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the way that the symbolism of Pahom's final day on earth is used to ask questions about the purpose of life. Be sure to discuss the sun, the rules about beginning and ending on the same spot, and Pahom's discarding of his clothing and possessions along the way.
Essay Topic 3
At the beginning of Chapter II, the reader learns that "Close to the village there lived a lady, a small landowner, who had an estate of about three hundred acres. She had always lived on good terms with the peasants...." Write an essay in which you explain how this detail comments on Pahom's subsequent difficulties with his community.
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