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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pan Andrew ask Joseph to do during the fire?
(a) He asks him to help find Jan Kanty.
(b) He asks him to sound the Heynal for the rest of the night.
(c) He asks him to help find Nicholas Kreutz.
(d) He asks him to help him fight the fire.

2. When Joseph returns to the marketplace to give his family the news about their possible lodgings, what is the scene he sees?
(a) His parents' cart surrounded by a mob of angry peasants.
(b) His parents' cart surrounded by Tartars.
(c) His parents' cart surroundeded by people offering them a place to stay.
(d) His parents' cart surrounded by the king and his royal court.

3. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?
(a) Try to kill the Tartars he sees.
(b) Sound the trumpet for the lost people of Kiev.
(c) Sound the Heynal for Poland and Our Lady.
(d) Flee to the castle.

4. Whom is Joseph amazed to see in the custody of king's palace guard after the fire?
(a) Michael the Snake.
(b) The king himself.
(c) Peter of the Button Face.
(d) Stas.

5. What do the people try to do with their possessions during the fire?
(a) They take them to the king's palace to help his family.
(b) They sell their possessions.
(c) Because the fire is contained quickly, they just have to do some clean up in their dwellings.
(d) They try to quickly rescue as much as they can from the fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has a Russian ruler offered the stranger in return for something he wants?

2. After they leave Jan Kanty's house, what does Joseph's father tell him he can keep?

3. What story does Pan Andrew tell Joseph when Joseph accompanies him to his new place of work for the first time?

4. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?

5. What happens to Joseph, his mother, and Elzbietka during the fire?

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