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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In taking the job, what does Pan Andrew promise to do?
(a) He vows to help Kreutz with his experiements without telling anyone about them.
(b) He vows to play the Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the day.
(c) He vows to write down whatever the king needs, at any time of day.
(d) He vows to play Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the night.

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

3. When Joseph awakens from his nap in Chapter 4, what does he see his father doing?
(a) He sees him helping Kanty talk to the peasants.
(b) He sees him studying with Kanty.
(c) He sees him practicing the trumpet.
(d) He sees him cutting the rind away from the pumpkin.

4. When Joseph and Elzbietka turn on to the Street of Pigeons after Elzbietka's question about women studying, who identifies them to someone else?
(a) Jan Kanty.
(b) Stas.
(c) Nicholas Kreutz.
(d) Pan Andrew Charnetski.

5. 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) When the Tartars pick up the song where the trumpeter left off.
(d) As the trumpeter is killed with the bow and arrow from the Tartar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives above the Charnetskis?

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

3. What story does Pan Andrew tell Joseph when Joseph accompanies him to his new place of work for the first time?

4. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?

5. When the stranger gives Stas instructions in Chapter 9, what is Stas' only task?

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