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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?
(a) He drives the carriage for his father.
(b) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(c) He helps to break up the fight.
(d) He unloads the goods from the wagon.

3. What is the oath taken by the trumpeter?
(a) To play the National Anthem every morning.
(b) To sound the trumpet each hour of the day and night until death.
(c) To defend the country.
(d) To warn the people inside the castle of the coming Tartars.

4. Krakow welcomes which group of people?
(a) The Ukrainians who are fleeing the Tartars.
(b) The Russians who are fleeing the Tartars.
(c) The people of Bulgaria who try to fight the Tartars.
(d) The villagers who stay to fight the Tartars.

5. What do the people do when they hear the Tartars' approach in 1241?
(a) Head towards the army and try to attack them before they arrive in the village.
(b) Gather up all of their ammunition to defend themselves.
(c) Stay in their villages and negotiate with the Tartars.
(d) Leave their homes with their belongings to try to escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the trumpeter's mother and sister as Poland is being attacked?

2. What is the name provided as the stranger approaches the individual wagon in the caravan?

3. When Joseph arrives at his family's destination, what does he see?

4. Why do the men in the caravan carry weapons?

5. When is the broken note first played?

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