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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most accurate description of the Tartar army?
(a) It is so numerous that it takes days for them to pass through an area.
(b) It is very large, but they run through each town quickly.
(c) It is a small but slow group that takes days to pass through a town.
(d) It is a large, efficient group that moves through a town in a day.

2. What is in the open room at the tower of the Church of Our Lady Mary?
(a) Trumpets, a bell rope, and flags.
(b) Trumpets and food.
(c) Trumpets and bows and arrows.
(d) Trumpets and guns.

3. What is the Heynal?
(a) The hymn to Our Lady.
(b) The castle next to Wawel.
(c) The battle cry of the Tartars.
(d) The National Anthem.

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

5. What does the stranger offer to Stas for agreeing to spy on Joseph's family?
(a) He offers him gold.
(b) He offers him food.
(c) He offers him a house.
(d) He offers him a job.

6. After his heroic act, to whom does Joseph confide in about his family's situation?
(a) A guard and a Tartar.
(b) Elzbietka and Nicholas Kreutz.
(c) Kazimir Jagiello and Jan Kanty.
(d) Jan Kanty and Stefan Ostrovski.

7. What is the scene Joseph sees when he first goes to explore the marketplace?
(a) He sees a family from his village.
(b) He sees Stefan Ostrovski.
(c) He sees Pan Andrew Tenczynski.
(d) He sees a Tartar boy beating a dog.

8. To whom does Joseph hear the Tartars praying?
(a) Buddah.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Allah.
(d) The god of the sun.

9. What story does Pan Andrew tell Joseph when Joseph accompanies him to his new place of work for the first time?
(a) The story of the trumpeter and the broken note.
(b) The story of his cousin.
(c) The story of the pumpkin and the crystal.
(d) The story of their ancestors.

10. 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 Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the night.
(c) He vows to play the Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the day.
(d) He vows to write down whatever the king needs, at any time of day.

11. When Joseph arrives at his family's destination, what does he see?
(a) Bright, sunlit palaces, churches, towers, battlement walks, and Gothic buildings.
(b) Flat farmland, barns, and stables.
(c) Spanish-American architecture.
(d) Buildings adorned by the rich sculpture marked by the Italian Renaissance.

12. What is the most accurate description of the Tartars' appearance?
(a) Short, dark men with beards and long, braided hair.
(b) Tall, dark men with shaved heads.
(c) Tall, pale men with beards and long, braided hair.
(d) Short, pale men with shaved heads.

13. Who lives above the Charnetskis?
(a) Johann Tring.
(b) Kreutz and his neice.
(c) Andrew Tenczynski.
(d) Stefan Ostrovski.

14. On the night in Chapter 7 when Joseph sees Elzbietka, what does she tell him she is worried about?
(a) She does not trust Tring and has noticed a change in her uncle.
(b) She is worried about the man who lives downstairs with the old woman.
(c) She is worried about the Tartars attacking.
(d) She is worried about her upcoming exams at school.

15. Which best describes the Tartars' religious belief?
(a) They believe in God.
(b) They are Jewish.
(c) They are Buddhists.
(d) They do not know God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has a Russian ruler offered the stranger in return for something he wants?

2. Who lives below the Charnetskis?

3. Why do the men in the caravan carry weapons?

4. What distresses Kreutz as he listens to Tring?

5. As the treasure is being stolen, what does the thief see?

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