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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 kind of homes do the Bashkirs live in?
2. What is surprising about the chief of the Bashkirs?
3. In Chapter V, whom does Pahom leave in charge of his homestead while he is gone?
4. Which word is a synonym for "haggle"?
5. What does the dealer tell Pahom he did before bargaining for the Bashkir land?
Short Essay Questions
1. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
2. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
3. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
4. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
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 deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
9. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?
10. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
When Pahom decides to take his neighbors to court, he thinks "I cannot go on overlooking it, or they will destroy all I have." Pahom likely means this sincerely; what undermines this statement for the reader, however? Write an essay in which you both explain at least two ways in which this statement proves to be ironic.
Essay Topic 3
Write an analytical essay that traces the way that the reader's understanding of the title changes over the course of the story.
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