Semyon
Writer's Craft
Vocabulary
Tatar
100
Semyon's age
What is 60 years old?
100
A description of where the setting.
What is the water, the bare banks, clay, and nothing else... Easter has long passed and yet there is ice on the river, and this morning there was snow...?
100
A large rowed ferry boat with 4 to 10 oars
What are karbos?
100
The first description of the Tatar.
What is ill and weary, wrapping himself up in his rags.
200
Semyon's nickname.
What is Canny?
200
The reason the Tatar is with Semyon?
What is that his brothers and uncle stole a neighbor's horse and beat up an old man?
200
An ethnic group of Turkic-speaking, traditionally Moslem people
What is Tatar?
200
What the Tatar thought was bad in the beginning of the story.
What is the place he is living in?
300
Semyon's profession.
What is ferryman?
300
"An antediluvian animal with long paws"
What is the description of the barge?
300
A village commune, mir, had the right to exile any lawbreakers to siberia.
What is "Commune had not judged fairly"?
300
What the Tatar thought was good, saying "Good! good!".
What is Vasilly having a wife and daughter?
400
The name of the man from Semyon's story about a man from Russia that looks for a doctor for his daughter.
Who is Vassily Sergeyitch?
400
What the Tatar called Canny after Canny ridiculed Vassily.
What is a stone, clay, a beast?
400
The Tatar was paid 10 of these for working all day and night at the oar.
What are kopecks?
400
The reason the Tatar didn't sleep in the hut?
What is because he didn't have anything to cover him, and where he was he could use the heat of the fire.
500
Semyon's perspective on what people need in life.
What is nothing?
500
Theme of the story
What is misery loves company?
500
A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair.
What is pomade?
500
The Tatar's role in the final scene of the story.
What is crying outside the hut like a dog howling?
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