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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joseph Charnetski see as he is riding in the back of the wagon while in the caravan?
(a) A man stealing good from another wagon.
(b) A beautiful woman fall off her horse.
(c) A single rider barge rudely through the caravan.
(d) A child fall off of a wagon.

2. When is the broken note first played?
(a) When the Tartars pick up the song where the trumpeter left off.
(b) As the trumpeter's trumpet breaks.
(c) As the trumpeter's trumpet is knocked out of his hands by the Tartar's arrow.
(d) As the trumpeter is killed with the bow and arrow from the Tartar.

3. Why do the men in the caravan carry weapons?
(a) Because they need to defend themselves against thieves.
(b) Because they are worried about the Tartars attacking them.
(c) Because they are on their way to protect Krakow.
(d) Because they are going hunting.

4. When the Tartars attack Krakow in the 1200s, what do the Polish people decide to do?
(a) They decide to prepare to attack the Tartars outside the castle gates.
(b) They decide to flee the castle gates once the Tartars approach.
(c) They decide to not defend the city outside of the gates of Wawel.
(d) They decide to send armies out of the castle gates to meet the Tartars.

5. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?
(a) He unloads the goods from the wagon.
(b) He drives the carriage for his father.
(c) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(d) He helps to break up the fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stranger tell a group of people Pan Andrew did that makes them angry?

2. What is unusual about one of the wagons in the caravan?

3. What is the trumpeter thinking when he sees the fierce men looking up at him after the attack on Krakow?

4. What is the name of the fortress and castle of the king of Poland on a hill above the Vistula River?

5. While in the caravan, which of the stranger's orders does Joseph Charnetski follow?

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