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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. What fascinating objects do the two young men sent by Lubonski discover during Easter?
(a) Intricately designed golden baskets.
(b) New weapons used by the royal assassins.
(c) Ukrainian Easter eggs.
(d) Venemous frogs specific to Prussia.

2. Which Tartar dwarf becomes a fighter for Khan?
(a) Sleepy.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Vuldai.
(d) Zygmunt.

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

4. Where do Cyprjan, Lukasz and Jan of the Beech Trees take position as they set up to defeat the Swedes?
(a) At a monastery.
(b) In an abandoned school.
(c) Inside a government building.
(d) In an old castle.

5. What is Buk's occupation?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Machinist.
(c) Lobbyist.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who flees when the Mongols approach Krakow?

2. Where do many Communist dignitaries vacation or hold meetings?

3. Who does Hedwig marry?

4. Who is the emperor of Vienna when Lubonski and his men arrive?

5. When Turkey and the Ottoman Empire begIn to expand in 1683, who does Germany, France, the Papal States, Hungary and Austria ask for help?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Polish hussars and what king is responsible for their development?

2. When and where does the book open, and what special event begins the story?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who are Feliks and Roman and what is typical about them?

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

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