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

2. What does the stranger tell a group of people Pan Andrew did that makes them angry?
(a) He says Pan Andrew cut off his brother's head and turned it into a pumpkin.
(b) He says that Pan Andrew stole the king's jewels.
(c) He says that Pan Andrew was really a Tartar in a peasant's clothing.
(d) He says that Pan Andrew has escaped from prison.

3. Why is Krakow is a safe haven?
(a) It has experienced warriors.
(b) There is room for many people.
(c) It has a lot of weapons.
(d) The king's palace provides extra walls of protection for the refugees.

4. What is the name of the fortress and castle of the king of Poland on a hill above the Vistula River?
(a) Cloth Hall.
(b) Mazovia.
(c) Wawel.
(d) St. Ann.

5. Where are the trumpeter's mother and sister as Poland is being attacked?
(a) With cousins in Moravia.
(b) With cousins in Krakow.
(c) With his father in the castle.
(d) With his brother in Kiev.

Short Answer Questions

1. What valuable information does Stas give to the stranger about Joseph's family?

2. What heroic act does Joseph do while in the marketplace?

3. How does Pan Andrew Charnetski know the stranger is not Polish?

4. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?

5. What does Joseph tell Elzbietka that he will do if he is every attacked in the tower?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Polish people decide not to defend Krakow and let the Tartars pillage their city?

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

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

4. Explain what Joseph Charnetski does and what he realizes when the stranger initially rides up to him while in the caravan in Chapter 1.

5. Describe the oath that the trumpeter takes.

6. 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?

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

8. Describe how the people of Poland feel when they hear that the Tartars are marching toward their land?

9. What was the meeting between Joseph and Stas like in the courtyard as described in Chapter 6?

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

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