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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their first meeting, what offer of Jan Kanty's does Pan Andrew make he declines?
(a) Jan Kanty offers to allow the Charnetski family to stay in his dwelling.
(b) Jan Kanty offers to take the Charnetski family back to their village.
(c) Jan Kanty offers to keep Pan Andrew's treasure.
(d) Jan Kanty offers to let Pan Andrew work for him.

2. After Joseph tells Elzbietka what he will do if attacked, what does Elzbietka promise?
(a) She promises to take care of his parents if he dies.
(b) She promises to go to Jan Kanty if she ever hears him play the Heynal without stopping at the broken note.
(c) She promises to find out what is in the pumpkin if he dies.
(d) She promises to run to the king's palace if she ever hears him play the Heynal in its entirety.

3. 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 large, efficient group that moves through a town in a day.
(d) It is a small but slow group that takes days to pass through a town.

4. When the stranger gives Stas instructions in Chapter 9, what is Stas' only task?
(a) To break down the rickety staircase.
(b) To burn down the apartment.
(c) To play the trumpet.
(d) To let twelve men in the apartment.

5. 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 villagers who stay to fight the Tartars.
(d) The Russians who are fleeing the Tartars.

6. At the palace gate, what suggestion does the guard give to Pan Andrew?
(a) Live in the city openly and freely.
(b) Leave or live in the city under an assumed name.
(c) Go find the king in a neighboring city.
(d) Wait at the palace gates for Pan Andrew Tenczynski to return.

7. As the Charnetski family settles into their new life, what is included in Joseph's nightly routine?
(a) He sits with Jan Kanty and learns from him.
(b) He goes to sleep early because he has to go to school the next morning.
(c) He goes to work with his father and then returns home to his mother.
(d) He stays at work with his father all night.

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

9. What does the stranger offer to buy from Pan Andrew Charnetski?
(a) His goods.
(b) His pumpkin.
(c) His clothes.
(d) HIs wagon.

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

11. After his father's job is secured, what does Joseph learn he will be doing?
(a) He will be selling goods in the marketplace.
(b) He will be helping his father as the king's scribe.
(c) He will be helping Jan Kanty.
(d) He will be going to school.

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

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

14. How many rooms does the Charnetskis' new dwelling have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

15. When Joseph and Elzbietka turn on to the Street of Pigeons after Elzbietka's question about women studying, who identifies them to someone else?
(a) Nicholas Kreutz.
(b) Stas.
(c) Pan Andrew Charnetski.
(d) Jan Kanty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Joseph find his family a place to stay?

3. When Jan Kanty hears Joseph tell his parents that he found a place for them to stay, on what does Jan Kanty insist?

4. When Elzbietka asks Joseph why women are not allowed to study at the university, what is his answer?

5. Who lives below the Charnetskis?

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