1. What are the characteristics in Babanchik that make him a favorite with the children?
2. Contrast the Babanchik who played with the children with the Babanchik who talked with the father.
3. What were Babanchik’s most serious interests?
4. What circumstances of his birth hampered his influence with the Russian government?
5. How was his ambition to become a member of the city Duma crushed?
6. In spite of government intervention, what were some of the beneficial influences which Babanchik found that he could exert?
7. What was there in the government of Russia that was particularly distasteful to a man of Babanchik’s nature?
8. What strong traits of Babanchik are brought out in that long furious fight for his children in the Russian prison?
9. What effect did the war have upon Babanchik’s view of Russia?
10. What hastened the old man’s desire to return?