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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of job does Jan Kanty arrange for Pan Andrew?
(a) The job of Kreutz's assistant.
(b) The job of Kanty's assistant.
(c) The job of the trumpter at the Church of Our Lady Mary.
(d) The job of the king's scribe.

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

3. 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 man stealing good from another wagon.
(c) A single rider barge rudely through the caravan.
(d) A beautiful woman fall off her horse.

4. Krakow welcomes which group of people?
(a) The people of Bulgaria who try to fight the Tartars.
(b) The Ukrainians who are fleeing the Tartars.
(c) The Russians who are fleeing the Tartars.
(d) The villagers who stay to fight the Tartars.

5. Which best describes the Tartars?
(a) Compassionate people who invade but do not do much damage.
(b) Like wild beasts who leave nothing alive.
(c) Peaceful people who just want some more land.
(d) Inexperienced warriors.

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

7. In what year do the Tartars attack Poland?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1241.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1592.

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

9. Where are the trumpeter's mother and sister as Poland is being attacked?
(a) With cousins in Moravia.
(b) With cousins in Krakow.
(c) With his father in the castle.
(d) With his brother in Kiev.

10. When Joseph returns to the marketplace to give his family the news about their possible lodgings, what is the scene he sees?
(a) His parents' cart surrounded by the king and his royal court.
(b) His parents' cart surrounded by a mob of angry peasants.
(c) His parents' cart surrounded by Tartars.
(d) His parents' cart surroundeded by people offering them a place to stay.

11. Who lives below the Charnetskis?
(a) Stefan Ostrovski.
(b) Johann Tring.
(c) An old woman and her son.
(d) Andrew Tenczynski.

12. 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) Kill himself.
(d) Play the Heynal but stop at the broken note.

13. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?
(a) He needs to decide whether to steal the goods or chase the horse.
(b) She needs to decide whether to go to the market or go home.
(c) He needs to decide whether to chase Pan Andrew or the horse.
(d) He needs to decide whether to kidnap Joseph or go back to Krakow.

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

15. What is unusual about one of the wagons in the caravan?
(a) It is led by two horses and it is carrying a very large pumpkin.
(b) It is fancier than the rest of the wagons.
(c) It is larger than any of the other wagons.
(d) It is being pulled by a man and is carrying several children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1 begins in what month and year?

2. Why is Jan Kanty well respected in Krakow?

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

4. While in the caravan, which of the stranger's orders does Joseph Charnetski follow?

5. In the midst of all the destruction after the attack on Krakow, there is one Polish person left alive. Who is it?

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