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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kreutz say about trances and experiments?
(a) That the people of Krakow have always embraced them.
(b) That the people of Krakow have always been weary of them.
(c) That the people of Lvov are experts at doing them.
(d) That the people of Kiev are experts at doing them.

2. After the explosions, what is the new nickname of Peter of the Button Face?
(a) Bodgan of the Hair.
(b) Bodgan of the Fire.
(c) Bodgan of the Buttons.
(d) Bogdan of the Singed Locks.

3. In taking the job, what does Pan Andrew promise to do?
(a) He vows to play the Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the day.
(b) He vows to help Kreutz with his experiements without telling anyone about them.
(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.

4. How much of the city is destroyed by the fire?
(a) Almost the entire city.
(b) One third of the entire city.
(c) Just the houses on the Street of Pigeons.
(d) Just the University buildings.

5. Why is Jan Kanty well respected in Krakow?
(a) He is a member of the royalty, a highly educated man, and a friend of the alchemist.
(b) He is a scholar-priest who is dedicated to learning, helpful to the peasants, and a hater of cruelty toward man.
(c) He completes acts of sorcery on a daily basis.
(d) He recently defeated a band of Tartars who had attacked the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people try to do with their possessions during the fire?

2. Who lives above the Charnetskis?

3. After Elzbietka makes her promise to Joseph, what do they see?

4. When Peter is in the tower, Joseph finally learns the name of the crystal. What is it?

5. What has Joseph learned to do by the time fall arrives?

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