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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. When Pahom "inquired" how to find the Bashkirs, what did he do?
3. How do the Bashkirs react when Pahom asks for land?
4. How much land does the dealer tell Pahom he bought from the Bashkirs for 1,000 rubles?
5. What is an important value among the Bashkirs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?
2. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
3. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
4. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
5. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
6. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?
7. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?
8. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
9. When Pahom and his family arrive in the new settlement beyond the Volga, what does he do first, and what is the result?
10. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay in which you offer both textual and historical evidence that several characters in "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" can be read allegorically.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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