CLASS
-10TH
STORTY-7
HOW MUCH
LAND DOES A MAN NEED?
(Leo
Tolstoy)
Q1. What did the two women discuss Were they related to each other?
Ans. The two women discussed about town life and
village life. Both of them were sisters. The elder one spoke in praise of town
life. The younger one praised country life:
Q2. What did one woman say in defense of rural life? What was the counterargument?
Ans. She said that rural life could be rough, but it
was free from anxiety. Villagers might never grow rich, but they always had
enough to eat. But the other woman boasted of the town life.
Q. 3. Pakhom listened to the women's chatter. He started brooding and reached conclusions. What was the conclusion?
Ans. Pakhom did not have enough land. He thought that
if he had plenty of land, he would not fear the Devil himself, and he wanted to buy more
land.
Q. 4. When the Devil heard Pakhom's musings, what did he decide?
Ans. The devil decided to give Pakhom enough land. And by
means of that land, he decided to get Pakhom into his power.
Q. 5. The estate owner, on whose land Pakhom was a tenant, sold her land. Who bought the land?
Ans. One of Pakhom's bought fifty acres of the land.
Pakhom also arranged to buy forty acres of that land.
Q. 6. How did Pakhom manage to put together the money for buying the land?
Ans. Pakhom sold his colt and one half of his bees. He
hired out one of his sons as a labourer and took his wages in advance. He also borrows
some money from his brother-in-law.
Q. 7. Pakhom met a stranger one day. Who was this stranger? What information did he give to Pakhom?
Ans. This stranger was a peasant. He told Pakhom that
he had come from beyond the Volga. He said that the land there was very
fertile. The rye sown on it grew as high as a horse.
Q. 8. A trader told Pakhom about the land of Bashkirs. What was it?
Ans. He told Pakhom that the Bashkirs had plenty of
land, it was near a river and was very fertile. They sold it at a very low price—13,000
acres for only 1,000 rubles.
Q. 9. Who Were the Bashkirs How did Pakhom make friends with them?
Ans. Bashkirs were very simple people. They lived in
tents. They had plenty of land. Pakhom made friends with them by giving them
various gifts.
Q. 10. Bashkirs wanted to repay Pakhom for his gifts. What did Pakhom want from them?
Ans. Pakhom wanted from them their land; it was for
this purpose only that he had come there.
Q. 11. Our price is always the same; one thousand rubles a day,' the chief said. What did he mean?
Ans. The Bashkirs did not sell their land by acres.
They sold it by the day. It meant one could have for one thousand rubles as
much land as one could walk round in one day.
Q. 12. On what condition did the chief agree to sell land to Pakhom?
Ans. For one thousand roubles, Pakhom could have as
much land as he could walk round in a day. But there was one condition. He had
to come back to the starting point before sunset.
Q. 13. What is the moral of the story?
Ans. Man's physical needs on this earth are not many.
Yet he keeps hungering for them all his life. He never feels satisfied till he
meets his end.
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