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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what name do the Polish people know the stranger?
(a) Peter of the Wolf Dogs.
(b) Bogdan the Terrible.
(c) Peter of the Button Face.
(d) Bogdan the Fearful.

2. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?
(a) Try to kill the Tartars he sees.
(b) Sound the Heynal for Poland and Our Lady.
(c) Sound the trumpet for the lost people of Kiev.
(d) Flee to the castle.

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

4. 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 man who lives downstairs with the old woman.
(b) She does not trust Tring and has noticed a change in her uncle.
(c) She is worried about her upcoming exams at school.
(d) She is worried about the Tartars attacking.

5. What does Kreutz say some people believe about the Philosopher's Stone?
(a) He says some people believe that it can give answers to the meaning of life.
(b) He says some people believe that it can make a man intelligent.
(c) He says some people believe that it can transform all things to gold.
(d) He says some people believe that it has great healing powers.

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

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

8. When is the broken note first played?
(a) As the trumpeter is killed with the bow and arrow from the Tartar.
(b) As the trumpeter's trumpet breaks.
(c) As the trumpeter's trumpet is knocked out of his hands by the Tartar's arrow.
(d) When the Tartars pick up the song where the trumpeter left off.

9. When Elzbietka asks Joseph why women are not allowed to study at the university, what is his answer?
(a) He says that the law states women are not allowed to be educated.
(b) He says that he does not know the reason.
(c) He says that women are not as intelligent as men.
(d) He says that men are jealous of women and they don't want the women to know more than the men.

10. In Chapter 2, whom does Pan Andrew say he has to come to see?
(a) Pan Stefan Ostrovski, his brother.
(b) Pan Jan Kanty, his friend.
(c) Pan Nicholas Kreutz, his cousin.
(d) Pan Andrew Tenczynski, his cousin.

11. What does Elzbietka confess to Joseph in Chapter 8?
(a) That she wants to leave her uncle.
(b) That she is in love with Joseph.
(c) That she thinks her uncle is possessed by Tring.
(d) That she saw a murder occur.

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

13. What do the people do when they hear the Tartars' approach in 1241?
(a) Leave their homes with their belongings to try to escape.
(b) Gather up all of their ammunition to defend themselves.
(c) Stay in their villages and negotiate with the Tartars.
(d) Head towards the army and try to attack them before they arrive in the village.

14. When the Polish people hear the word "Tartar," they:
(a) Know they need to go pay some taxes.
(b) Feel like dancing.
(c) Feel their the blood in their veins is going to freeze.
(d) Want to eat fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After his father's job is secured, what does Joseph learn he will be doing?

2. When the Tartars reach Krakow for the attack in 1241, what do they do?

3. After Elzbietka makes her promise to Joseph, what do they see?

4. When Joseph further investigates Elzbietka's concerns, what does he see?

5. After his heroic act, to whom does Joseph confide in about his family's situation?

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