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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 Heynal?
(a) The hymn to Our Lady.
(b) The castle next to Wawel.
(c) The battle cry of the Tartars.
(d) The National Anthem.

2. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?
(a) He helps to break up the fight.
(b) He drives the carriage for his father.
(c) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(d) He unloads the goods from the wagon.

3. After they leave Jan Kanty's house, what does Joseph's father tell him he can keep?
(a) A friend he met while in the marketplace.
(b) The wolfdog that Joseph saw the Tartar beating earlier in the day.
(c) The crystal from inside the pumpkin.
(d) Some of Jan Kanty's books.

4. When the stranger gives Stas instructions in Chapter 9, what is Stas' only task?
(a) To let twelve men in the apartment.
(b) To break down the rickety staircase.
(c) To play the trumpet.
(d) To burn down the apartment.

5. What valuable information does Stas give to the stranger about Joseph's family?
(a) Stas tells the stranger their new name and Joseph's father's occupation.
(b) Stas tells the stranger that Joseph's family is related to the king.
(c) Stas tells the stranger that Pan Andrew's cousin was killed.
(d) Stas tells the stranger where Joseph is going to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of job does Jan Kanty arrange for Pan Andrew?

2. Which is the best description of the trumpeter as he plays amidst all of the destruction in Krakow?

3. After Joseph tells Elzbietka what he will do if attacked, what does Elzbietka promise?

4. After hearing Pan Andrew's story, what advice does Jan Kanty provide?

5. As the Charnetski family walks to their apartment for the first time, what does Jan Kanty break up?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 1, after the stranger offers to buy the item sitting in Pan Andrew's wagon, what happens?

3. 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?

4. Explain why many people seek Jan Kanty's advice.

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

6. In Chapter 8, what reason does Joseph give Elzbietka for why the scholar they see is not speaking at the University?

7. What are the aspects of Pan Andrew's job?

8. Explain how the Polish people feel as they have to leave their villages because they know the Tartars are arriving.

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

10. Describe the tower from which Pan Andrew has to perform his job.

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