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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 1 begins in what month and year?
(a) July, 1461.
(b) March, 1774.
(c) October, 1802.
(d) January, 1241.

2. Why is Jan Kanty well respected in Krakow?
(a) He completes acts of sorcery on a daily basis.
(b) He is a scholar-priest who is dedicated to learning, helpful to the peasants, and a hater of cruelty toward man.
(c) He recently defeated a band of Tartars who had attacked the city.
(d) He is a member of the royalty, a highly educated man, and a friend of the alchemist.

3. Where is the Charnetski family going with the caravan?
(a) They are traveling to Kiev.
(b) They are traveling to Krakow.
(c) They are traveling to Lvov.
(d) They are traveling to Ukraine.

4. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?
(a) Try to kill the Tartars he sees.
(b) Sound the Heynal for Poland and Our Lady.
(c) Flee to the castle.
(d) Sound the trumpet for the lost people of Kiev.

5. Who lives above the Charnetskis?
(a) Kreutz and his neice.
(b) Stefan Ostrovski.
(c) Johann Tring.
(d) Andrew Tenczynski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most accurate description of the Tartar army?

2. What is the most accurate description of the Tartars' appearance?

3. When Joseph awakens from his nap in Chapter 4, what does he see his father doing?

4. What is the Heynal?

5. What is in the open room at the tower of the Church of Our Lady Mary?

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