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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has a Russian ruler offered the stranger in return for something he wants?
(a) Membership into the royal family of Russia.
(b) A large plot of land and many livestock.
(c) A position at the university.
(d) Coffers of gold and a castle in Ukraine.

2. Where does Joseph find his family a place to stay?
(a) In the same building as Elzbietka and Kreutz.
(b) In the same building as Ostrovski and Kanty.
(c) In their cousin's house back in their old village.
(d) In the king's palace.

3. What is unusual about the staircase that leads to the Charnetskis' new dwelling?
(a) It is painted different colors.
(b) It is steep.
(c) It is curved.
(d) It is shaky and rickety.

4. As he ponders the attack on Krakow, of what is the trumpeter proud?
(a) He is proud to be the best trumpet player in the land.
(b) He is proud to be the trumpeter who warned the Polish people of the Tartars' attack.
(c) He is proud to be the hero of Poland.
(d) He is proud to be fighting with Polish men for Christendom against brutal and savage invaders.

5. After Elzbietka makes her promise to Joseph, what do they see?
(a) A group of Tartars beating up a Polish family.
(b) A Latin scholar teaching a crowd of students near the university.
(c) The king returning to his palace.
(d) A Tartar boy beating up a wolf dog for no apparent reason.

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

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

8. As the Charnetskis are waiting to see their apartment for the first time, which activity of Jan Kanty's do they witness?
(a) He studies.
(b) He gives the peasants who visit him practical solutions to their problems.
(c) He gives the peasants who visit him solutions of sorcery to their problems.
(d) He cooks.

9. What is the name provided as the stranger approaches the individual wagon in the caravan?
(a) Irene Witkowski.
(b) Stefan Ostrovski.
(c) Jan Kanty.
(d) Andrew Charnetski.

10. Chapter 1 begins in what month and year?
(a) January, 1241.
(b) March, 1774.
(c) July, 1461.
(d) October, 1802.

11. Where is the Charnetski family going with the caravan?
(a) They are traveling to Krakow.
(b) They are traveling to Ukraine.
(c) They are traveling to Lvov.
(d) They are traveling to Kiev.

12. What does Joseph Charnetski see as he is riding in the back of the wagon while in the caravan?
(a) A child fall off of a wagon.
(b) A single rider barge rudely through the caravan.
(c) A man stealing good from another wagon.
(d) A beautiful woman fall off her horse.

13. What is the oath taken by the trumpeter?
(a) To play the National Anthem every morning.
(b) To warn the people inside the castle of the coming Tartars.
(c) To defend the country.
(d) To sound the trumpet each hour of the day and night until death.

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

15. What does the stranger tell a group of people Pan Andrew did that makes them angry?
(a) He says Pan Andrew cut off his brother's head and turned it into a pumpkin.
(b) He says that Pan Andrew has escaped from prison.
(c) He says that Pan Andrew was really a Tartar in a peasant's clothing.
(d) He says that Pan Andrew stole the king's jewels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hears the instructions given to Stas by the stranger?

2. Who lives below the Charnetskis?

3. How old is Joseph Charnetski?

4. In Chapter 5, when Joseph returns from his walk with the dog, what does he see?

5. What does the stranger offer to Stas for agreeing to spy on Joseph's family?

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