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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 do the Bashkirs make their living?
2. In Chapter V, whom does Pahom leave in charge of his homestead while he is gone?
3. What crop does Pahom grow at the new settlement?
4. When Pahom "inquired" how to find the Bashkirs, what did he do?
5. How are the Bashkirs characterized when Pahom first meets them?
Short Essay Questions
1. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?
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 is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
4. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
5. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
6. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
7. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
8. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
9. What deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?
10. When Pahom and his family arrive in the new settlement beyond the Volga, what does he do first, and what is the result?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
At the beginning of Chapter III, Tolstoy tells the reader that "Pahom was well contented, and everything would have been right if the neighboring peasants would only not have trespassed on his corn-fields and meadows." What evidence argues that this is not true? Why would Tolstoy have had his narrator say this if it is unlikely to be true? How does this affect the reader's understanding of the narrator's tone, and why does it matter?
Essay Topic 3
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?"
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