2. After Elzbietka makes her promise to Joseph, what do they see?
(a) A group of Tartars beating up a Polish family.
(b) The king returning to his palace.
(c) A Latin scholar teaching a crowd of students near the university.
(d) A Tartar boy beating up a wolf dog for no apparent reason.

3. What is the Heynal?
(a) The castle next to Wawel.
(b) The National Anthem.
(c) The hymn to Our Lady.
(d) The battle cry of the Tartars.

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

5. When Elzbietka asks Joseph why women are not allowed to study at the university, what is his answer?
(a) He says that he does not know the reason.
(b) He says that the law states women are not allowed to be educated.
(c) He says that men are jealous of women and they don't want the women to know more than the men.
(d) He says that women are not as intelligent as men.

6. 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 helps to break up the fight.
(c) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(d) He drives the carriage for his father.

7. After hearing Pan Andrew's story, what advice does Jan Kanty provide?
(a) Kanty tells Pan Andrew that he should go watch the marketplace for the stranger.
(b) Kanty tells Pan Andrew that he should go find the king in a neighboring city.
(c) Kanty tells Pan Andrew that he should go back to his home.
(d) Kanty tells Pan Andrew that he should change his name and sell his horses.

8. What story does Pan Andrew tell Joseph when Joseph accompanies him to his new place of work for the first time?
(a) The story of the pumpkin and the crystal.
(b) The story of their ancestors.
(c) The story of the trumpeter and the broken note.
(d) The story of his cousin.

9. What does Pan Andrew say to Joseph when Joseph asks what is lighting up the room?
(a) He tells Joseph that it is a fire from an experiment.
(b) He tells Joseph that he will know in due time.
(c) He tells Joseph that it is a lantern.
(d) He tells Joseph that it is a large crystal.

10. What does the stranger tell a group of people Pan Andrew did that makes them angry?
(a) He says that Pan Andrew stole the king's jewels.
(b) He says that Pan Andrew has escaped from prison.
(c) He says Pan Andrew cut off his brother's head and turned it into a pumpkin.
(d) He says that Pan Andrew was really a Tartar in a peasant's clothing.

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

12. What is the trumpeter thinking when he sees the fierce men looking up at him after the attack on Krakow?
(a) He thinks he should kill himself.
(b) He decides to wait for the Polish army to rescue him.
(c) He knows he is alone in the midst of a terrible enemy.
(d) He decides to flee to the castle.

13. Who lives above the Charnetskis?
(a) Johann Tring.
(b) Stefan Ostrovski.
(c) Andrew Tenczynski.
(d) Kreutz and his neice.

14. In Chapter 7, what tempting thing does Tring tell Kreutz?
(a) He says he could become the greatest alchemist in Poland.
(b) He says he could be a part of the king's court.
(c) He says he could own the building in which he lives.
(d) He says he could be the trumpeter at the Church of Our Lady Mary.

15. What kind of job does Jan Kanty arrange for Pan Andrew?
(a) The job of the king's scribe.
(b) The job of the trumpter at the Church of Our Lady Mary.
(c) The job of Kanty's assistant.
(d) The job of Kreutz's assistant.