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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best description of the music heard in the Church of Our Lady Mary?
(a) The organ playing beautiful hymns.
(b) Notes float down from above like God's own music from heaven.
(c) A flute playing the Heynal.
(d) The organ playing horrible music.

2. When Pan Andrew arrives home after the explosions, what does he find?
(a) That his trumpet is missing.
(b) That his son is missing.
(c) That his wife is missing.
(d) That his treasure is missing.

3. What happens to Joseph, his mother, and Elzbietka during the fire?
(a) They flee their home but get trapped in the crowd on the Street of Pigeons.
(b) They flee their home and go to the king's palace.
(c) They flee their home but get trapped in the church.
(d) They flee their home and go to the University.

4. What happens to Peter of the Button Face's hair?
(a) It turns bright red.
(b) Kreutz sets a spell on it and it becomes curly.
(c) It turns blue.
(d) Kreutz sets it on fire using an explosive powder.

5. What does the king give to Pan Andrew?
(a) He returns the crystal to him.
(b) He gives him a heavy gold chain.
(c) He gives him a spot in the king's guard.
(d) He gives him a room at the palace.

6. What piece of music is being played?
(a) The Lord's Prayer.
(b) The Russian National Anthem.
(c) The National Anthem of Poland.
(d) The Heynal.

7. Where is the music being played in the church?
(a) Outside of the church.
(b) In the basement of the church.
(c) At one of the open tower windows.
(d) At the front of the church.

8. Who arrives at the tower with Nicholas Kreutz?
(a) Jan Kanty arrives with Kreutz.
(b) Elzbietka arrives with Kreutz.
(c) Peter of the Button Face arrives with Kreutz.
(d) Pan Andrew arrives with Kreutz.

9. In Chapter 14, who descends on the Street of Pigeons and why?
(a) Able men go to the Street of Pigeons to help fight the fire.
(b) Peter of the Button Face's men go to the street to fight the fire.
(c) The Tartars go to the the Street of Pigeons to help fight the fire.
(d) All the women go there to help fight the fire.

10. What is noticeable about the music being played?
(a) The tune of the Heynal has been changed.
(b) The entire piece of music is played.
(c) It stills ends at the broken note.
(d) The music is not beautiful anymore.

11. Who is questioned in the king's chambers?
(a) Michael the Snake.
(b) Nicholas Kreutz.
(c) Peter of the Button Face.
(d) Jan Kanty.

12. What is done to help fight the fire?
(a) Firemen are called in to help stop the fire.
(b) A line is drawn by tearing down adjacent buildings to keep it from spreading further.
(c) Buckets of water are thrown on the center of the fire.
(d) The women start throwing buckets of water on the fire.

13. Where does Pan Andrew think his treasure is once he discovers it missing?
(a) With Nicholas Kreutz.
(b) With Peter of the Button Face.
(c) With Stas.
(d) With Ivan of Russia.

14. Once help is summoned in Chapter 12, what happens?
(a) The king and his men save Pan Andrew from the tower.
(b) Peter and his men flee the tower when they see the watchmen coming.
(c) Peter and his men attack the Krakow watchmen and take Kanty hostage.
(d) The thirty watchmen free Pan Andrew and remove the thieves.

15. When Peter talks to Pan Andrew, what information does Pan Andrew give that Peter refuses to believe?
(a) Pan Andrew says that Stas stole the treasure.
(b) Pan Andrew says that his wife stole the treasure.
(c) Pan Andrew says that he does not have the treasure.
(d) Pan Andrew says that Jan Kanty stole the treasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument is playing in the church in the Epilogue?

2. Why is Joseph anxious to see the palace at Wawel Hill?

3. In Chapter 11, to whom does the author say Pan Andrew's treasure is to go?

4. Once Peter and his men are in the tower, what confuses Pan Andrew and Joseph?

5. Because Pan Andrew is so depressed about the treasure being gone, what does Joseph often do?

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