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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapters IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of homes do the Bashkirs live in?
(a) Wooden houses.
(b) Tents made of felt.
(c) Stone houses.
(d) Huts made of sticks and mud.

2. How much more land does Pahom have for his use when he and his family are first living at the new settlement?
(a) Fifteen times as much as in his village.
(b) Thirty times as much as in his village.
(c) A hundred times as much as in his village.
(d) Three times as much as in his village.

3. When Pahom "inquired" how to find the Bashkirs, what did he do?
(a) Wondered.
(b) Researched.
(c) Asked.
(d) Planned.

4. Why does Pahom end up taking his neighbors to court?
(a) Their animals trespass on his land.
(b) They disagree about the boundary of his land.
(c) The refuse to pay him the rent that they owe him.
(d) They steal his crops.

5. Which character thinks "I'll give you land enough; and by means of that land I will get you into my power"?
(a) The local landowner.
(b) Simon.
(c) The devil.
(d) Pahom's brother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Bashkirs react when Pahom asks for land?

2. 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"?

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

4. What will Pahom do with "pasturage"?

5. How are the Bashkirs characterized when Pahom first meets them?

(see the answer key)

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