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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. Which character thinks that "Busy as we are from childhood tilling Mother Earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads"?
2. What agreement does Pahom come to with the landowner?
3. How many acres does the local landowner have?
4. Which character thinks "I'll give you land enough; and by means of that land I will get you into my power"?
5. What does Pahom's wife say may happen to a man in town?
Short Essay Questions
1. What changes the relationship between the woman who owns land near the village and the peasants, and how does the relationship change?
2. 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?
3. What sequence of events with Simon follows Pahom's discovery of the stripped trees?
4. In Chapter I, what is ironic about where Pahom is while he listens to his wife and her sister talk?
5. When the devil overhears Pahom's thoughts, what does he vow to do?
6. What sacrifices do Pahom and his family make for the first plot of land that they buy?
7. In Chapter I, what is ironic about the conversation between the two sisters?
8. How does Pahom's relationship with his community change, and what are two specific pieces of evidence for this change?
9. What prevents the peasants from buying the nearby landowner's land as a group instead of as individuals?
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
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter I, when the sisters are talking, Pahom's wife tells her sister, "We may live roughly, but at least we are free from anxiety. You live in better style than we do, but though you often earn more than you need, you are very likely to lose all you have. You know the proverb, 'Loss and gain are brothers twain.'" Write an essay that explains the meaning of this quote and why, in the context of this story, it is heavily ironic.
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