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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the broken note first played?
(a) As the trumpeter's trumpet breaks.
(b) As the trumpeter's trumpet is knocked out of his hands by the Tartar's arrow.
(c) As the trumpeter is killed with the bow and arrow from the Tartar.
(d) When the Tartars pick up the song where the trumpeter left off.

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

3. To whom does Joseph hear the Tartars praying?
(a) The god of the sun.
(b) Buddah.
(c) Allah.
(d) Jesus Christ.

4. In what year do the Tartars attack Poland?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1592.
(c) 1241.
(d) 1776.

5. When the Tartars reach Krakow for the attack in 1241, what do they do?
(a) Are defeated by the people of Krakow.
(b) See that is was a small city and leave.
(c) Take hostages for several weeks and then release them.
(d) Burn the outlying villages and pillage the districts around the churches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Krakow is a safe haven?

2. Where is the Charnetski family going with the caravan?

3. Krakow welcomes which group of people?

4. As he ponders the attack on Krakow, of what is the trumpeter proud?

5. How does Pan Andrew Charnetski know the stranger is not Polish?

(see the answer key)

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