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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, to whom does the author say Pan Andrew's treasure is to go?
(a) To Stefan Ostrovsky.
(b) To the king of Poland.
(c) To Nicholas Kreutz.
(d) To Jan Kanty.

2. What was renovated during the Renaissance?
(a) Old Cloth Hall.
(b) The University.
(c) The homes.
(d) The marketplace.

3. What reason does Pan Andrew give for almost losing everything he has?
(a) The Philosopher's Stone.
(b) The Tartars.
(c) The Great Tarnov Crystal.
(d) Michael the Snake.

4. Of what is Krakow the center?
(a) Arts only.
(b) Arts, music, crafts, and education.
(c) Warrior training.
(d) Music only.

5. What best describes the statues in the Church of Our Lady Mary?
(a) Huge.
(b) Broken and crumbling.
(c) Tablets, banners, altars, and shrines look down from breaks in the Gothic fluting.
(d) Ugly.

6. How much of the city is destroyed by the fire?
(a) Almost the entire city.
(b) One third of the entire city.
(c) Just the University buildings.
(d) Just the houses on the Street of Pigeons.

7. Which two people get in a scuffle in Pan Andrew's apartment after the explosions in the Charnetski apartment?
(a) Peter of the Button Face and Jan Kanty.
(b) Peter of the Button Face and the alchemist.
(c) The alchemist and Jan Kanty.
(d) Nicholas Kreutz and Andrew Charnetski.

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

9. How does Kreutz explain his mental state to Tring?
(a) He says he is mentally exhausted from all of his studying.
(b) He says he is still mentally exhausted from the scuffle with Peter of the Button Face.
(c) He says he is mentally exhausted from worry about his niece.
(d) He says he is mentally exhausted from being in so many trances.

10. Whom is Joseph amazed to see in the custody of king's palace guard after the fire?
(a) The king himself.
(b) Stas.
(c) Michael the Snake.
(d) Peter of the Button Face.

11. 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 he does not have the treasure.
(c) Pan Andrew says that his wife stole the treasure.
(d) Pan Andrew says that Jan Kanty stole the treasure.

12. What instrument is playing in the church in the Epilogue?
(a) The piano.
(b) The trumpet.
(c) The flute.
(d) The organ.

13. What does Kreutz say he has done to obtain the item he places in the middle of the room?
(a) He says that he stole it and has perjured his soul.
(b) He says that he had to lie to get the stone.
(c) He says that he asked permission from the king to get the stone.
(d) He says that he had to kill someone to get the stone.

14. What does Pan Andrew ask Joseph to do during the fire?
(a) He asks him to help find Nicholas Kreutz.
(b) He asks him to help him fight the fire.
(c) He asks him to help find Jan Kanty.
(d) He asks him to sound the Heynal for the rest of the night.

15. What makes the leader of the twelve men shriek and tremble?
(a) The sudden appearance of a mob of weapon-wielding Tartars.
(b) The sudden appearance of Ivan of Russia.
(c) The sudden appearance of a red, fiery, glowing devil.
(d) The sudden appearance of the king of Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king learn about Ivan the Great?

2. What do the people try to do with their possessions during the fire?

3. After the explosions, what is the new nickname of Peter of the Button Face?

4. What other important piece of information does Pan Andrew provide when at the palace?

5. What happens to Peter of the Button Face's hair?

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