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

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

3. 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.

4. As Chapter 1 opens, which of the following describes the caravan?
(a) Multiple horse carriages with the drivers riding in them.
(b) One-horse wagons piled high with goods for the marketplace with drivers walking alongside the carts.
(c) Peasants walking and carrying their belongings.
(d) Peasants riding horses.

5. How much of the city is destroyed by the fire?
(a) Almost the entire city.
(b) Just the University buildings.
(c) One third of the entire city.
(d) Just the houses on the Street of Pigeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joseph Charnetski see as he is riding in the back of the wagon while in the caravan?

2. Who arrives at the tower with Nicholas Kreutz?

3. What does the stranger offer to buy from Pan Andrew Charnetski?

4. With what does Kreutz flee at the end?

5. What distresses Kreutz as he listens to Tring?

(see the answer key)

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