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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 is Pahom's first reaction when he learns that people are moving to a new settlement?
2. How many acres does Pahom buy in his first land purchase?
3. Which character thinks "I'll give you land enough; and by means of that land I will get you into my power"?
4. What does Pahom do when the court rules against him?
5. How many acres does the local landowner have?
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. What prevents the peasants from buying the nearby landowner's land as a group instead of as individuals?
3. In what two ways is Pahom's first decision to buy land different from his later decisions?
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. How does Pahom's relationship with his community change, and what are two specific pieces of evidence for this change?
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. In Chapter I, what is ironic about where Pahom is while he listens to his wife and her sister talk?
9. When the devil overhears Pahom's thoughts, what does he vow to do?
10. What sequence of events with Simon follows Pahom's discovery of the stripped trees?
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
What do you think of the relationship between the two sisters? Does it seem healthy? What might be the cause of the older sister trying to make her younger sister feel bad about her life? How does this tie into the theme of the story?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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