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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 bothers Pahom the most about the stripping of bark from his trees?
2. What problem does the new steward create for the local peasants?
3. Which character says that "Loss and gain are brothers twain"?
4. How do Pahom's neighbors retaliate when he takes them to court?
5. What does the expression "racked his brains" mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Pahom's relationship with his community change, and what are two specific pieces of evidence for this change?
2. In Chapter I, what is ironic about where Pahom is while he listens to his wife and her sister talk?
3. What sequence of events with Simon follows Pahom's discovery of the stripped trees?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter I, what is ironic about the conversation between the two sisters?
6. What changes the relationship between the woman who owns land near the village and the peasants, and how does the relationship change?
7. What prevents the peasants from buying the nearby landowner's land as a group instead of as individuals?
8. What sacrifices do Pahom and his family make for the first plot of land that they buy?
9. In what two ways is Pahom's first decision to buy land different from his later decisions?
10. When the devil overhears Pahom's thoughts, what does he vow to do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain several ways in which Pahom alienates his community.
Essay Topic 2
The deal that Pahom intends to strike with the Bashkirs takes place in a context in which the reader is told that the Bashkirs are not formally educated and speak no Russian. Why might Tolstoy have included these details? Write an essay in which you make a claim about Tolstoy's use of the Bashkirs as a way to comment on Pahom's ethics.
Essay Topic 3
Explain what the devil's plan is and how he carries it out. Be sure that you discuss his motives, for the plan as a whole and for its details as well.
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