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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 tells the two young men being sent by Lubonski to pay particular attention to the Granickis?
(a) Lubonski's wife.
(b) Lubonski's daughter.
(c) Lubonski himself.
(d) Lubonski's son.

2. What kind of policy movement does Buk protest?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Healthcare.
(c) City government.
(d) Industrial.

3. Who was ordered to object at the reforms and the meeting of the Polish parliament?
(a) Buk.
(b) The American Ambassador.
(c) Lukasz.
(d) Lubonski.

4. Who is hanged for stealing a rabbit?
(a) The priest.
(b) Janko.
(c) The bishop.
(d) Pawel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bukowski say is better in Poland than in the Russian bloc?

2. Which of his own sons does Lubonski also think should marry?

3. When does Catherine the Great became Empress of Russia?

4. Where is Castle Gorka located when Bukowo is under Austrian rule?

5. Who becomes Stanislaw August, King of Poland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gift does Han give to his wife? How and why does she react?

2. What is Szymon Bukowski's role in the special event the beginning of the book?

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

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

5. What is the topic of discussion Feliks and Roman have at Lancut? What prediction do they make regarding the topic of discussion?

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

7. Why was Poland taken so easily by the Tartars?

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

9. Who sends Pawel and Janko on a spy mission and why?

10. What is the Polish reaction to the 1772 partition of Poland? Who has control of Bukowo?

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