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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapters VII-IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Pahom do with "pasturage"?
(a) Process milk for the market.
(b) Plant trees there.
(c) Let animals graze there.
(d) House cattle in the winter.

2. Which character says that "Loss and gain are brothers twain"?
(a) Pahom's wife.
(b) Pahom's sister-in-law.
(c) The local landowner.
(d) Pahom.

3. What does Pahom do when the court rules against him?
(a) He quits the commune in protest.
(b) He tries to appeal the case.
(c) He accuses the judges of taking bribes.
(d) He strips someone else's trees in revenge.

4. What is the "steppe" Pahom is headed for at the end of Chapter VII?
(a) An area where horses are temporarily kept.
(b) Flat, grassy land without trees.
(c) A marshy place where irrigation water can be drawn.
(d) A thick forest on the flat top of a hill.

5. In the beginning of Chapter VII, how far does Pahom plan to walk the next day?
(a) 15 miles.
(b) 35 miles.
(c) 3miles.
(d) 50 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Pahom accuse of stripping his trees?

2. How many sons is it implied that Pahom has?

3. Why does Pahom end up taking his neighbors to court?

4. When, in the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Bashkirs "ascended" the shikhan, what did they do?

5. What is Pahom's reaction to the trouble with the steward?

(see the answer key)

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