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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Chapters I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acres does the local landowner have?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 40.
(c) 1,300.
(d) 300.

2. What bothers Pahom the most about the stripping of bark from his trees?
(a) Whoever did it cut down a whole clump of trees.
(b) Whoever did it also let his cows out of their pen.
(c) He hates the idea of a stranger being on his land.
(d) He hates the idea of trees being wasted in this way.

3. What does the stranger staying at Pahom's house overnight tell Pahom?
(a) Life in the countryside is difficult but secure.
(b) That people in the new settlement beyond the Volga are making good money.
(c) The Bashkir are selling land very cheaply.
(d) Life in town is very risky.

4. What reaction do the peasants have when they hear rumors about the sale of the land?
(a) They beg the woman not to sell her land.
(b) They celebrate, because they do not like the landowner.
(c) They go to court to try to add the land to the commune.
(d) They decide that they need to buy it themselves.

5. What is Pahom's first reaction when he learns that people are moving to a new settlement?
(a) He wants to sell his land and move.
(b) He worries that there will not be enough workers for his land.
(c) He tries to get their share of the commune lands.
(d) He thinks that maybe he can buy their land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Pahom accuse of stripping his trees?

2. When the younger sister is "piqued," what is she feeling?

3. What is a steward?

4. Which character says that "Loss and gain are brothers twain"?

5. Which character thinks that "Busy as we are from childhood tilling Mother Earth, we peasants have no time to let any nonsense settle in our heads"?

(see the answer key)

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