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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 will Pahom do with "pasturage"?
2. How much land does the dealer tell Pahom he bought from the Bashkirs for 1,000 rubles?
3. How many sons is it implied that Pahom has?
4. What is surprising about the chief of the Bashkirs?
5. How much more land does Pahom have for his use when he and his family are first living at the new settlement?
Short Essay Questions
1. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
2. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?
3. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
4. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
5. What deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?
6. When Pahom and his family arrive in the new settlement beyond the Volga, what does he do first, and what is the result?
7. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?
8. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
9. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
10. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
After Pahom is fined for his animals' trespass on his neighbor's land, the reader is told that "Pahom paid, but grumbled, and, going home in a temper, was rough with his family." What does this sentence imply? Why would Tolstoy choose to include this detail? What significance does it have for the overall 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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