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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the most accurate description of the Tartars' appearance?
(a) Short, pale men with shaved heads.
(b) Tall, pale men with beards and long, braided hair.
(c) Short, dark men with beards and long, braided hair.
(d) Tall, dark men with shaved heads.

3. What does the stranger tell a group of people Pan Andrew did that makes them angry?
(a) He says that Pan Andrew stole the king's jewels.
(b) He says that Pan Andrew was really a Tartar in a peasant's clothing.
(c) He says Pan Andrew cut off his brother's head and turned it into a pumpkin.
(d) He says that Pan Andrew has escaped from prison.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?

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

3. When Joseph returns to the marketplace to give his family the news about their possible lodgings, what is the scene he sees?

4. In the midst of all the destruction after the attack on Krakow, there is one Polish person left alive. Who is it?

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

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