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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. How is the Vistula River different?
2. What is the best description of Krakow at the time the novel was written?
3. What do the people try to do with their possessions during the fire?
4. What does every citizen in Krakow have in their homes?
5. When Peter is in the tower, Joseph finally learns the name of the crystal. What is it?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Peter of the Button Face say to the king regarding why he is in Krakow in Chapter 15?
2. What do Jan Kanty and the king decide to do about the crystal in Chapter 16?
3. Describe the Vistula River as it is explained in the Epilogue.
4. Describe how the Epilogue explains the Heynal is played.
5. As Peter tries to escape in Chapter 10, what does Kreutz do?
6. As of 1928, as described in the Epilogue, why do people go to the city of Krakow?
7. Describe how the people of Krakow put out fires in general and in Chapter 14.
8. In Chapter 10, Peter of the Button Face is scared as he watches red balls of fire fall. Despite his fear, what does he do?
9. When Jan Kanty arrives at the tower with Kreutz in Chapter 14, what does Pan Andrew observe?
10. When Elzbietka hears the Heynal played in its entirety as described in Chapter 12, where is she and what does she do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the conflict between superstition and science in the novel. Do you think this was an important issue to the author? What is he trying to portray by returning to this conflict? Does the conflict seem relevant to the main theme of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss what you think is the climax of the novel. Does more than one climax exist? Which do you think is the most effective? As you were reading, did you think that the book was almost over? Was the multiple use of exciting scenes effective in making the novel exciting for the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think the author used both fictional and non-fictional characters in the novel? Do you think it is confusing to combine true and made up characters? If you were tasked with writing a historical fiction novel, would you do it the same way that this author did? Why or why not?
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