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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. Why does Pahom end up taking his neighbors to court?
3. What bothers Pahom the most about the stripping of bark from his trees?
4. What does the older sister brag about?
5. When the younger sister is "piqued," what is she feeling?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Chapter I, what is ironic about the conversation between the two sisters?
3. When the devil overhears Pahom's thoughts, what does he vow to do?
4. What sacrifices do Pahom and his family make for the first plot of land that they buy?
5. In Chapter I, what is ironic about where Pahom is while he listens to his wife and her sister talk?
6. How does Pahom's relationship with his community change, and what are two specific pieces of evidence for this change?
7. What prevents the peasants from buying the nearby landowner's land as a group instead of as individuals?
8. What sequence of events with Simon follows Pahom's discovery of the stripped trees?
9. What changes the relationship between the woman who owns land near the village and the peasants, and how does the relationship change?
10. In what two ways is Pahom's first decision to buy land different from his later decisions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Pahom's fate related to his class and circumstances? How is it related to his individual character? Write an essay that take a position on what factor is most responsible for his fate, and why.
Essay Topic 2
In the seventeenth century, the Cavalier poet Robert Herrick wrote a two-line poem about poverty:
Who with a little cannot be content,
Endures an everlasting punishment.
Write an essay in which you explain the meaning of Herrick's poem and discuss how his theme connects to Tolstoy's story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
Essay Topic 3
Write an analytical essay that traces the way that the reader's understanding of the title changes over the course of the story.
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