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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the Tartars attack Krakow in the 1200s, what do the Polish people decide to do?
(a) They decide to flee the castle gates once the Tartars approach.
(b) They decide to prepare to attack the Tartars outside the castle gates.
(c) They decide to not defend the city outside of the gates of Wawel.
(d) They decide to send armies out of the castle gates to meet the Tartars.

3. Who accompanies the Charnetski family and Jan Kanty to their new dwelling in Chapter 5?
(a) Conrad Mlynarki.
(b) Nicholas Kreutz.
(c) Johann Tring.
(d) Stefan Ostrovski.

4. 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.

5. Where are the trumpeter's mother and sister as Poland is being attacked?
(a) With cousins in Krakow.
(b) With cousins in Moravia.
(c) With his brother in Kiev.
(d) With his father in the castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the Charnetski family walks to their apartment for the first time, what does Jan Kanty break up?

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

3. What heroic act does Joseph do while in the marketplace?

4. After Jan Kanty meets the Charnetski family for the first time, what does Pan Andrew explain to Jan Kanty?

5. Why is Jan Kanty well respected in Krakow?

(see the answer key)

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