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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Broken Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In taking the job, what does Pan Andrew promise to do?
(a) He vows to play the Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the day.
(b) He vows to play Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the night.
(c) He vows to write down whatever the king needs, at any time of day.
(d) He vows to help Kreutz with his experiements without telling anyone about them.

2. Once Tring sees what Kreutz puts in the middle of the room, what does he understand?
(a) He understands why Kreutz is so worried about his niece.
(b) He understands why Kreutz is in frequent trances.
(c) He understands why Stas disappeared.
(d) He understands why the Tartars hate the Polish people so much.

3. What happens to the fire?
(a) It burns for one hour and stops by the time the Heynal is played again.
(b) It is quickly contained because of the line drawn to keep it from speading.
(c) It burns down the king's palace.
(d) The fire rages out of control.

4. After his heroic act, to whom does Joseph confide in about his family's situation?
(a) Jan Kanty and Stefan Ostrovski.
(b) A guard and a Tartar.
(c) Elzbietka and Nicholas Kreutz.
(d) Kazimir Jagiello and Jan Kanty.

5. What has Joseph learned to do by the time fall arrives?
(a) He has learned how to sell goods in the marketplace.
(b) He has learned how to play his father's trumpet.
(c) He has learned how to make the staircase more sturdy.
(d) He has learned how to make gold from the Philosopher's Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the trumpeter as he plays amidst all of the destruction in Krakow?

2. What does Joseph tell Elzbietka that he will do if he is every attacked in the tower?

3. Once Peter and his men are in the tower, what confuses Pan Andrew and Joseph?

4. What building has defied fire, siege, and war for eight centuries?

5. Who accompanies the Charnetski family and Jan Kanty to their new dwelling in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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