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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Broken Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, when Joseph returns from his walk with the dog, what does he see?
(a) His father, Kreutz, and Kanty.
(b) His father, a stranger, and a trumpet.
(c) His father, his mother, and a stranger.
(d) His father, a stranger, and the pumpkin.

3. When Joseph first hears the trumpeter play from the Church of Our Lady Mary, what surprises him?
(a) He is surprised to hear the Heynal that stops mid-note.
(b) He is surprised to hear the National Anthem of Ukraine.
(c) He is surprised to hear the Heynal played in its entirety
(d) He is surprised to hear the National Anthem of Poland.

4. What is noticeable about the music being played?
(a) The tune of the Heynal has been changed.
(b) The entire piece of music is played.
(c) The music is not beautiful anymore.
(d) It stills ends at the broken note.

5. What does Joseph tell Elzbietka that he will do if he is every attacked in the tower?
(a) Play the Heynal in its entirety without stopping at the broken note.
(b) Kill his attacker.
(c) Play the Heynal but stop at the broken note.
(d) Kill himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tring angry with the information from Kreutz about his mental state?

2. What happens at the end of the meeting with the king?

3. What is unusual about the staircase that leads to the Charnetskis' new dwelling?

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

5. How do Peter and his men enter the tower?

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