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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. How old is the trumpeter when Poland is attacked?
(a) Ten or eleven.
(b) Thirty-nine or forty.
(c) Nineteen or twenty.
(d) Sixty.

3. Why is Krakow is a safe haven?
(a) There is room for many people.
(b) It has a lot of weapons.
(c) It has experienced warriors.
(d) The king's palace provides extra walls of protection for the refugees.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Joseph Charnetski?

2. Which best describes the Tartars?

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

4. What is the scene Joseph sees when he first goes to explore the marketplace?

5. Which is the best description of the trumpeter as he plays amidst all of the destruction in Krakow?

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