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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most accurate description of the Tartar army?
(a) It is a large, efficient group that moves through a town in a day.
(b) It is so numerous that it takes days for them to pass through an area.
(c) It is a small but slow group that takes days to pass through a town.
(d) It is very large, but they run through each town quickly.

2. When Joseph arrives at his family's destination, what does he see?
(a) Bright, sunlit palaces, churches, towers, battlement walks, and Gothic buildings.
(b) Buildings adorned by the rich sculpture marked by the Italian Renaissance.
(c) Spanish-American architecture.
(d) Flat farmland, barns, and stables.

3. How does Pan Andrew Charnetski know the stranger is not Polish?
(a) By the stranger's clothing.
(b) By the stranger's food.
(c) By the stranger's foreign features.
(d) By the stranger's accent.

4. When Joseph first hears the trumpeter play from the Church of Our Lady Mary, what surprises him?
(a) He is surprised to hear the Heynal that stops mid-note.
(b) He is surprised to hear the National Anthem of Ukraine.
(c) He is surprised to hear the National Anthem of Poland.
(d) He is surprised to hear the Heynal played in its entirety

5. Which two cities do the Tartars attack before they invade Poland?
(a) Kiev and Lvov.
(b) St. Petersburg and Moscow.
(c) Minsk and Moscow.
(d) Vienna and Budapest

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the Tartars' religious belief?

2. When the Tartars attack Krakow in the 1200s, what do the Polish people decide to do?

3. In Chapter 2, whom does Pan Andrew say he has to come to see?

4. After his heroic act, to whom does Joseph confide in about his family's situation?

5. In what year do the Tartars attack Poland?

(see the answer key)

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