I.

1. Who came to visit whom? Who are they married to?
2. What was the subject of their conversation?
3. What each of the sisters thinks about money?
4. Who is Pahom? What did he think?
5. Who was overhearing the conversation? What did he promise?

II.
6. Who lived in the village? Why Pahom did not like her?
7. What did the lady decide to do in the winter about her land? What did the peasants do in response?
8. Why they did not want the lady to sell the land to the innkeeper? What did they offer instead?
9. What did Pahom do when he knew about the peasants buying lands?

III.
10. How did Pahom treat the peasants who trespassed his meadows at first?
11. Did the treatment change with time? Why? How did the peasants react?
12. Who is Simon?
13. What was the rumor that spread at that time? How did Pahom feel about it?
14. Who came from Volga to Pahom's house? What did he tell him about lands there?
15. What did Pahom think of that?
16. What did Pahom do in the summer?
17. What did he do when he came back home?

IV.
18. What did he do as soon he reached the new land?
19. What did they give him? Was he happy or that was not enough?
20. What did he rent the lands for?
21. Did he get tired of renting land? What did he want instead?
22. What did the dealer tell Pahom about the land of the Bashkirs?
23. What did Pahom decide to do?
24. Knowing the personality of Pahom now, what do you think will happen to him?