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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 best description of the music heard in the Church of Our Lady Mary?
2. How is the Vistula River different?
3. Which statement best describes what happens to Joseph at the end of the novel?
4. What does Pan Andrew ask Joseph to do during the fire?
5. Once she receives her clue that Joseph is in trouble, what does Elzbietka do?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Tring puts Kreutz into a trance in Chapter 13, what important information does Kreutz give to Tring?
2. Who leaves the tower to fight the fire and who fills in for him in Chapter 14?
3. What happens when Kreutz actually mixes the ingredients to make the Philosopher's Stone in Chapter 13?
4. When Jan Kanty arrives at the tower with Kreutz in Chapter 14, what does Pan Andrew observe?
5. What does the inside of the Church of Our Lady Mary look like?
6. Describe how the Epilogue explains the Heynal is played.
7. Chapter 11 explains that something has changed with Peter of the Button Face. Describe the changes.
8. In Chapter 10, what happens on the rickety stairway that leads to the Charnetski family apartment?
9. What do Jan Kanty and the king decide to do about the crystal in Chapter 16?
10. What does Peter of the Button Face do to break into the tower in Chapter 11?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do you think that Peter of the Button Face's bargain with the king was fair? Do you think the king should have let Peter go in exchange for information? Or do you think he should have punished him more severely? Why do you think the king would have believed that Peter would never return to Poland again?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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