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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. What does the dealer tell Pahom he did before bargaining for the Bashkir land?
3. What is surprising about the chief of the Bashkirs?
4. What is the "kumiss" that the Bashkir women make?
5. If Pahom's land is "arable," what is true of his land?
Short Essay Questions
1. After the chief offers Pahom land, how does Pahom respond, and why?
2. What causes Pahom to become dissatisfied with his situation in the new settlement?
3. What is the response of the Bashkirs to Pahom's arrival?
4. How does the text contrast the life of the Bashkirs with the life of Russian peasants, and what is ironic in this description?
5. When Pahom asks the Bashkirs for some land, what is their response?
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 deal does the traveling dealer tell Pahom he was able to get on land from the Bashkir?
8. What deal does Pahom strike to buy some land of his own in the settlement beyond the Volga?
9. What procedure do the Bashkirs outline for marking the land that Pahom claims?
10. What is the price of the land the Bashkirs offer Pahom, and how much land do they offer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an analytical essay that traces the way that the reader's understanding of the title changes over the course 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
In the seventeenth century, the Cavalier poet Robert Herrick wrote a two-line poem about poverty:
Who with a little cannot be content,
Endures an everlasting punishment.
Write an essay in which you explain the meaning of Herrick's poem and discuss how his theme connects to Tolstoy's story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
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