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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the broken note first played?
(a) As the trumpeter's trumpet breaks.
(b) As the trumpeter is killed with the bow and arrow from the Tartar.
(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.

2. What is the shape of the tower of the Church of Our Lady Mary?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) Octagon.
(c) Circle.
(d) Square.

3. What does Kreutz say about trances and experiments?
(a) That the people of Lvov are experts at doing them.
(b) That the people of Krakow have always been weary of them.
(c) That the people of Krakow have always embraced them.
(d) That the people of Kiev are experts at doing them.

4. 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) Jan Kanty.
(b) Nicholas Kreutz.
(c) Pan Andrew Charnetski.
(d) Stas.

5. When Jan Kanty hears Joseph tell his parents that he found a place for them to stay, on what does Jan Kanty insist?
(a) Kanty insists that they go straight to the place Joseph has found.
(b) Kanty insists that they to to the church first.
(c) Kanty insists that they go to the king's palace again.
(d) Kanty insists that they go with him to his dwelling first.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elzbietka confess to Joseph in Chapter 8?

2. Who accompanies the Charnetski family and Jan Kanty to their new dwelling in Chapter 5?

3. Who lives below the Charnetskis?

4. Krakow welcomes which group of people?

5. In what year do the Tartars attack Poland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joseph catch the wolf dog in Chapter 2?

2. What is Joseph's father being accused of in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 8, Stas identifies Joseph and Elzbietka to a stranger. What information does he provide to the stranger?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Pan Andrew Charnetski tell the guard when he arrives at the palace gates and what is the guard's response?

5. In Chapter 5, when Kanty and the Charnetski family go to the lodgings Joseph has found, what do they witness on their way?

6. Provide some characteristics of the new lodgings for the Charnetski family.

7. Describe the agreement that Elzbietka and Joseph make to one another when in the tower in Chapter 8.

8. In Chapter 7, on the night that Elzbietka tells Joseph that Johann Tring is with her uncle, what else does she tell him about Kreutz?

9. In Chapter 4, what occurs when the Charnetski family accompanies Jan Kanty to his home?

10. Explain the feelings of the trumpeter as he plays for the last time.

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