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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimately happens to the trumpeter in 1241?
(a) He escapes the Tartars while playing the trumpet.
(b) He is killed by a Tartar with a bow and arrow while he is playing the Heynal.
(c) A Tartar shoots him when he is done playing.
(d) A Polish man accidentally shoots him with a bow and arrow.

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

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

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

5. Who accompanies the Charnetski family and Jan Kanty to their new dwelling in Chapter 5?
(a) Johann Tring.
(b) Conrad Mlynarki.
(c) Nicholas Kreutz.
(d) Stefan Ostrovski.

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

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

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

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

10. 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 himself.
(c) Kill his attacker.
(d) Play the Heynal but stop at the broken note.

11. Who tries to steal something from the Charnetski apartment?
(a) Pan Andrew Tenczynsksi.
(b) Peter of the Button Face.
(c) Stas.
(d) Nicholas Kreutz.

12. How old is the trumpeter when Poland is attacked?
(a) Thirty-nine or forty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Ten or eleven.
(d) Nineteen or twenty.

13. What is the stranger's real name?
(a) Pan Andrew Tenczynsksi.
(b) Jan Kanty.
(c) Stefan Ostrovski.
(d) Bogdan Brozny - Bogdan the Terrible.

14. In the midst of all the destruction after the attack on Krakow, there is one Polish person left alive. Who is it?
(a) The trumpeter of Kiev.
(b) The trumpeter of the Church of Our Lady Mary.
(c) The king of Krakow.
(d) The trumpeter of Wawel.

15. As Chapter 1 opens, which of the following describes the caravan?
(a) Peasants walking and carrying their belongings.
(b) One-horse wagons piled high with goods for the marketplace with drivers walking alongside the carts.
(c) Peasants riding horses.
(d) Multiple horse carriages with the drivers riding in them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of job does Jan Kanty arrange for Pan Andrew?

2. After hearing Pan Andrew's story, what advice does Jan Kanty provide?

3. In Chapter 7, what tempting thing does Tring tell Kreutz?

4. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?

5. Krakow welcomes which group of people?

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