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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had dreams of marrying Catherine but was rebuffed?
(a) Feliks.
(b) The American Ambassador.
(c) Lubonski.
(d) Poniatowski.

2. Who becomes Stanislaw August, King of Poland?
(a) Feliks.
(b) Lubonski.
(c) Poniatowski.
(d) Bukowski.

3. What was the new weapon of the group that invades Poland in July 1655?
(a) Muzzle loader.
(b) Poison dart.
(c) Canon.
(d) Grenade.

4. Polish king Jan Sobieski is successful in repelling the attacks from which country?
(a) England.
(b) Persia.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Russia.

5. When were the Ghengis Khan raids that are discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1198.
(d) 1204.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the army that Polish king Jan Sobieski develops?

2. Where does Bukowski go when the meeting between the Communist Party and and protesters is dismissed?

3. What name does Cyprjan when he stops using the name Gorka?

4. In what year does the story begin?

5. Count Lubonski decides it is time that inheritor of which estate to marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the outcome of the Polish fighting the Turks in Vienna? What crops are introduced to Poland because of the war?

2. What is the dual purpose of Feliks' and Roman's tour of Poland?

3. What is the purpose of Magistrate Cyperjan's banquet held at Castle Gorka? Why is the event held there?

4. What happens to the Ukrainian areas of Poland when the Cossacks revolt in 1648? What impedes the rebuilding process?

5. After the meeting in Chapter 1, who does Bukowski meet and what deal is arranged?

6. Who are the Teutonic Knights? Who is their leader when they relocate to northern Poland in 1226?

7. What complaint do the farmers make at the beginning of the book?

8. Who is Hedwig? What is her Polish name? Who and when does she marry?

9. Where are Baron Lasharz Lubonski's properties when Poland is partitioned in 1772? Where are castles Bukowo and Gorka located at this time?

10. Who asks Poland for help when the Ottoman Empire begins to expand and why?

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