After you've finished reading Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need," complete these study questions (in the online story Pakhom is spelled Pahom; same guy, though):
Section I:
1. How does the younger sister react to hearing how her older sister lives?
2. What did Pakhom say or do that led the Devil to form an evil plan?
3. What is the Devil’s plan for Pakhom?
Section II:
4. In what ways did Pakhom receive fines from the landowner?
5. How much land did Pakhom buy, and what was the agreement he made with the landowner to pay it off?
6. What did Pakhom mean at the end of this section, when he said that his land seemed “quite different” to him, as compared to before?
Section III:
7. How did his neighbors eventually come to feel about Pakhom’s “lessons”?
8. What did Pakhom accuse Simon of in court? What was the outcome of the trial?
9. What was Pakhom doing in the last paragraph of Section III?
Section IV:
10. How was Pakhom’s life in his new home, compared to his old one?
11. After a while living on the land, how did Pakhom begin to feel about his situation?
12. What is Pakhom tempted with at the end of Section IV?
13. What does “virgin soil” mean?
Section V:
14. The Bashkirs are different from the Russians. Identify at least 3 ways they are different.
15. What did Pakhom ask for, and what reasons did he give for wanting it?
16. What was the Bashkirs’ answer to Pakhom’s request?
17. At the end of this section, what are the Bashkirs arguing about?
Section VI:
18. What was the price for the Bashkirs’ land?
19. How will the Bashkirs determine what portion of land belongs to Pakhom?
Section VII:
20. How much land does Pakhom think he can get? What are his plans for this land?
21. Describe Pakhom’s dream.
Section VIII:
22. Why doesn’t Pakhom always turn when he should?
23. What is Pakhom worried about at the end of Section VIII?
Section IX:
24. Even when Pakhom is struggling, why does he not stop running?
25. What is ironic about the line “Six feet from his head to his toes was all he needed”?
26. Now that you have finished the story, what is ironic about when Pakhom says, “An hour to suffer, a lifetime to live,” in Section VIII?
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