How Much Land Does a Man Need? Quizzes

How Much Land Does a Man Need? Quiz 1

1 Generally, what adjective best characterizes the peasants’ relationships with each other?
Quarrelsome

Hostile

Peaceful

Harmonious
2 Why is Pahom unable to sleep the night before he claims Bashkirian land?
He’s preemptively claiming land without the Bashkirs' notice

He’s celebrating with the Bashkirs

He’s too preoccupied with thoughts of the land he plans to secure

He’s too preoccupied with feelings of regret for leaving his family
3 What does Pahom gift the Bashkirs?
Kumiss

His cattle

His wedding ring

Drinks and clothes
4 Pahom exemplifies all of the following contradictions EXCEPT __________
He values peasant life but decides that he needs to purchase property anyway

He expresses profound love for his wife, but abandons her anyway

He is sure that Simon stole his trees, but lacks any evidence

He fines the peasants despite recognizing their good intentions
5 The elder sisters finds city life enjoyable because of its __________
Education system

Architecture

Entertainment, clothing, and food options

Churches
6 What image reminds Pahom of his dream during his walk?
His barefootedness and minimal clothing

The Bashkirs drinking kumiss and singing together

The sinking sun

The Bashkir Chief laughing and holding his sides
7 All of these characters appear in Pahom's dream EXCEPT __________
The passing merchant

The Devil

Pahom's wife

The Bashkir Chief
8 When Pahom requests land from the Bashkirs, how do they react?
They tell Pahom he can have as much land as he wants

They explain to Pahom that there is not enough arable land to sell

They tell Pahom he can have a couple thousand acres of land but must share it with a Bashkir

They become livid and demand Pahom to leave
9 Pahom resents his estate in the middle section of the story because __________
The head of the commune begins reclaiming their land

He wants to sow more wheat but he doesn’t have enough land

There are too many peasants trespassing in his land

There is too much land for his small family to maintain
10 As Pahom approaches the hillock, the Bashkirs are __________
Shouting

Singing

Crying

Nowhere to be found
11 Who digs Pahom's grave?
Nobody

His workman

The Bashkir chief

The Devil
12 What event drives Pahom to want to acquire his first substantial piece of land?
The divorce from his wife

The Devil's persuasion

The innkeepers' fines

The sisters' conversation
13 The story’s closing line, “Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed,” is an example of __________
Situational irony

An understatement

Foreshadowing

An overstatement
14 Kumiss is a symbol for __________
Deception

Life’s simple pleasures

The perils of greed

Alcoholism
15 Pahom associates more expansive land ownership with __________
Risk

Freedom

Competence

Stress
16 Who are the Bashkirs?
A group of Turkish people living in the Ural Mountains

A group of wealthy merchants who take control over villages

A group of stalwart communists

A group of Russian peasants attempting to become landowners
17 When does the Devil first appear in the story?
At Pahom's funeral

When Pahom thinks that enough land will alleviate his fear of the Devil

When the peasants can't agree on how to section off the land for themselves

During Pahom's dream
18 The Devil overhearing Pahom’s initial contemplation of more land ownership is an example of ___________
Verbal irony

Allegory

Situational irony

Dramatic irony
19 How do the Bashkirs sell their land?
Landowners must bargain with the chief

Landowners can claim as much land as they can cover on foot in a day

Landowners start with a 500 acre estate and can increase their estates every six months

None of the above
20 What do the Bashkirs begin arguing about when Pahom inquires about the land acquisition?
Whether or not they should deceive Pahom into accepting their deal

Whether or not they should receive their chief’s permission for granting the land to Pahom

Whether or not they have enough land to give Pahom

Whether or not they trust Pahom
21 How does Pahom react to his dream?
He at first feels alarmed but ultimately shrugs it off

He laughs at its absurdity

He feels terrified and decides to cancel his walk

He immediately recounts it to the Bashkir chief
22 Who burdens the peasants with fines?
Simon

The female landowner

The old soldier who becomes a property manager

The innkeeper
23 Pahom often hears about new land acquisitions from __________
Advertisements posted across the village

Strangers passing through his village

The head of his commune

His wife's wealthier sister
24 How do the judges react toward Pahom's case against Simon?
They laugh at Pahom and refuse to see the case

They convict Simon of the crime

They suggest that Pahom move out of the commune

They dismiss it, citing a lack of evidence
25 How does the narrator characterize the Bashkirian land?
Well-maintained and haunting

Arid and dreary

Sparse and sterile

Fertile and flat

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

by Leo Tolstoy

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