Choose the best answer for each question. At the end of the quiz, your score will appear here. Note: this quiz is based on the original story. Some of the questions and answers may not be applicable to our simplified story.
What were the two sisters discussing at the beginning of the story?
Whether city life was better than country life.
Which one of them had the better husband.
Whether Pahóm could win his tussle with the Devil.
What problem did Pahóm have while farming Commune land near his home village?
The Devil started sowing bad seeds among the people.
An old soldier wanted to steal his horses and cows.
His horses and cows would stray onto a landowner's fields.
Why was Pahóm happy when winter came to this village?
Because it was snowing and he did not have to work every day.
Because it was too cold for his horses and cattle to go outside.
Because he heard that the inn-keeper was going to buy the landowner's farm.
Why did Pahóm decide to buy some of the landowner's fields?
So he could make his neighbours pay when their cattle strayed onto his land.
He was jealous of other people who were also buying some of the land.
The landowner said he could pay a little at a time over many years.
Why did Pahóm's neighbors begin to hate him after he bought the land?
Because he let thieves grease the palms of the Elder and Judges.
Because he would not share the wood from his trees.
Because he made them pay when their cattle strayed onto his land.
What were Pahóm's FIRST thoughts when he heard that some people from the village were moving to other parts of the country?
He was pleased because he could take over some of their land.
He was jealous and decided that he would move with them.
He was happy because he would have less problems with those who didn't leave.
Why did Pahóm decide to rent extra land when he moved to the village across the Volga River?
Because the land he got from the Commune wasn't good for farming.
Because he wanted to make more money by growing wheat every year.
Because even though he grew a fine crop, his Commune land was too far from the village.
Why did Pahóm decide to leave the village across the the Volga River and visit the land of the Bashkírs?
Because some peasant-dealers were living on separate farms, and were growing wealthy.
Because he wanted freehold land and there was none available for him to buy nearby.
Because he heard that the Bashkírs were not very clever and would sell their land cheaply.
What do we learn about the Bashkírs from the story?
That they are lazy and earn money by selling off their land very cheaply.
That they trick greedy people into loosing their money by trying to get too much land.
That they are happy in their life and think of land differently to Pahóm.
Which of these is NOT a possible moral (lesson) from the story?
You can't take money and land with you when you die, so you shouldn't value them too highly.
Never challenge the Devil, because he has magic and will win against you every time.
Ambition is good, but too much ambition caused by greed can lead to your downfall.