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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?
(a) He helps to break up the fight.
(b) He unloads the goods from the wagon.
(c) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(d) He drives the carriage for his father.

2. After his father's job is secured, what does Joseph learn he will be doing?
(a) He will be going to school.
(b) He will be helping Jan Kanty.
(c) He will be selling goods in the marketplace.
(d) He will be helping his father as the king's scribe.

3. In taking the job, what does Pan Andrew promise to do?
(a) He vows to play Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the night.
(b) He vows to write down whatever the king needs, at any time of day.
(c) He vows to play the Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the day.
(d) He vows to help Kreutz with his experiements without telling anyone about them.

4. Which best describes the Tartars?
(a) Inexperienced warriors.
(b) Compassionate people who invade but do not do much damage.
(c) Like wild beasts who leave nothing alive.
(d) Peaceful people who just want some more land.

5. How old is the trumpeter when Poland is attacked?
(a) Thirty-nine or forty.
(b) Nineteen or twenty.
(c) Ten or eleven.
(d) Sixty.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joseph first hears the trumpeter play from the Church of Our Lady Mary, what surprises him?

2. How does Pan Andrew tell time while he is working?

3. While in the caravan, which of the stranger's orders does Joseph Charnetski follow?

4. What is the oath taken by the trumpeter?

5. When the Tartars reach Krakow for the attack in 1241, what do they do?

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