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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. How are the Bashkirs characterized when Pahom first meets them?
2. How much more land does Pahom have for his use when he and his family are first living at the new settlement?
3. Once Pahom is able to rent land to put in more crops, what is his next complaint?
4. What is the "kumiss" that the Bashkir women make?
5. What does Pahom tell the Bashkirs is wrong with the land where he comes from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?
2. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
3. When Pahom and his family arrive in the new settlement beyond the Volga, what does he do first, and what is the result?
4. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?
5. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
6. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
7. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
8. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
9. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
10. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Write an essay analyzing the way that the symbolism of Pahom's final day on earth is used to ask questions about the purpose of life. Be sure to discuss the sun, the rules about beginning and ending on the same spot, and Pahom's discarding of his clothing and possessions along the way.
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