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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stranger's real name?

2. What does Pan Andrew say to Joseph when Joseph asks what is lighting up the room?

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

4. At the palace gate, what suggestion does the guard give to Pan Andrew?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Peter of the Button Face plan to break into Pan Andrew's apartment and steal the treasure in Chapter 9?

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

4. What does Pan Andrew explain to Jan Kanty in Chapter 4 once the mob scene has dissipated?

5. Describe the Tartars.

6. Describe why the last note the trumpeter plays is broken.

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think about the throwing of the crystal into the river? Why do you think the author concludes in this manner? Do you think the act of throwing the crystal away is symbolism for a cultural belief? If so, what do you think that symbolism is?

Essay Topic 2

Does the author provide insight into why so many people believed in superstition or the black arts, or is the reader left wondering why it was so important to the people in the novel? Was this a satisfying way to address the issue or do you wish the author would have handled it differently?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the fire. Discuss how the solution today for putting out fires is the same as the solution was in the Middle Ages. Compare today's methods of solving the problem with the methods of solving the problem in the Middle Ages. Do you think that the Middle Ages' method of putting out fires was smart and effective? Other than to teach a historically accurate event, why do you think the author goes to such great lengths to describe the methods of putting out the fire?

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