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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. In Chapter V, whom does Pahom leave in charge of his homestead while he is gone?
2. What kind of homes do the Bashkirs live in?
3. Once Pahom is able to rent land to put in more crops, what is his next complaint?
4. How much land does Pahom agree to buy in the new settlement?
5. When Pahom "inquired" how to find the Bashkirs, what did he do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
2. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
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. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?
5. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
6. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
7. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
8. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
9. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?
10. What deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why does Pahom ignore the dream he has about the devil laughing at him? Write an essay in which you give both textual evidence and psychological reasoning to explain why he would ignore a warning like this.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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