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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 ultimately happens to the trumpeter in 1241?
(a) A Polish man accidentally shoots him with a bow and arrow.
(b) A Tartar shoots him when he is done playing.
(c) He is killed by a Tartar with a bow and arrow while he is playing the Heynal.
(d) He escapes the Tartars while playing the trumpet.

2. Where does Joseph find his family a place to stay?
(a) In the same building as Elzbietka and Kreutz.
(b) In their cousin's house back in their old village.
(c) In the same building as Ostrovski and Kanty.
(d) In the king's palace.

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

4. As he ponders the attack on Krakow, of what is the trumpeter proud?
(a) He is proud to be the best trumpet player in the land.
(b) He is proud to be the hero of Poland.
(c) He is proud to be fighting with Polish men for Christendom against brutal and savage invaders.
(d) He is proud to be the trumpeter who warned the Polish people of the Tartars' attack.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is the trumpeter when Poland is attacked?

3. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?

4. When is the broken note first played?

5. At the palace gate, what suggestion does the guard give to Pan Andrew?

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