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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?
(a) He needs to decide whether to chase Pan Andrew or the horse.
(b) She needs to decide whether to go to the market or go home.
(c) He needs to decide whether to steal the goods or chase the horse.
(d) He needs to decide whether to kidnap Joseph or go back to Krakow.

2. What is unusual about the staircase that leads to the Charnetskis' new dwelling?
(a) It is curved.
(b) It is shaky and rickety.
(c) It is painted different colors.
(d) It is steep.

3. What preparations does Kreutz make in his apartment after he hears the instructions given to Stas?
(a) He mixes chemicals together to put a spell on Joseph and his family.
(b) He mixes chemicals together to make a glowing effect on his clothing.
(c) He asks Tring to put him in a trance as he prepares to meet the king.
(d) He asks Tring to put him in a trance to obtain wisdom.

4. What does the stranger offer to buy from Pan Andrew Charnetski?
(a) His clothes.
(b) His goods.
(c) His pumpkin.
(d) HIs wagon.

5. To whom does Joseph hear the Tartars praying?
(a) The god of the sun.
(b) Allah.
(c) Buddah.
(d) Jesus Christ.

6. After Jan Kanty meets the Charnetski family for the first time, what does Pan Andrew explain to Jan Kanty?
(a) He explains that his son has stolen something and they need to go into hiding.
(b) He explains that his wife is expecting a baby and they need a place to stay.
(c) He explains that he is in some trouble even though he has done nothing wrong.
(d) He explains that he is a friend of the king and wants to serve in his guard.

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

8. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?
(a) Sound the Heynal for Poland and Our Lady.
(b) Try to kill the Tartars he sees.
(c) Sound the trumpet for the lost people of Kiev.
(d) Flee to the castle.

9. Who hears the instructions given to Stas by the stranger?
(a) Joseph Charnetski.
(b) Nicholas Kreutz.
(c) Bogdan the Terrible.
(d) Stefan Ostrovski

10. What does Kreutz say some people believe about the Philosopher's Stone?
(a) He says some people believe that it can give answers to the meaning of life.
(b) He says some people believe that it can transform all things to gold.
(c) He says some people believe that it can make a man intelligent.
(d) He says some people believe that it has great healing powers.

11. When Joseph first hears the trumpeter play from the Church of Our Lady Mary, what surprises him?
(a) He is surprised to hear the Heynal played in its entirety
(b) He is surprised to hear the National Anthem of Poland.
(c) He is surprised to hear the Heynal that stops mid-note.
(d) He is surprised to hear the National Anthem of Ukraine.

12. In taking the job, what does Pan Andrew promise to do?
(a) He vows to help Kreutz with his experiements without telling anyone about them.
(b) He vows to write down whatever the king needs, at any time of day.
(c) He vows to play Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the night.
(d) He vows to play the Heynal on the trumpet every hour throughout the day.

13. When the Polish people hear the word "Tartar," they:
(a) Feel like dancing.
(b) Want to eat fish.
(c) Know they need to go pay some taxes.
(d) Feel their the blood in their veins is going to freeze.

14. What ultimately happens to the trumpeter in 1241?
(a) He escapes the Tartars while playing the trumpet.
(b) He is killed by a Tartar with a bow and arrow while he is playing the Heynal.
(c) A Tartar shoots him when he is done playing.
(d) A Polish man accidentally shoots him with a bow and arrow.

15. After his father's job is secured, what does Joseph learn he will be doing?
(a) He will be helping Jan Kanty.
(b) He will be going to school.
(c) He will be selling goods in the marketplace.
(d) He will be helping his father as the king's scribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joseph and Elzbietka turn on to the Street of Pigeons after Elzbietka's question about women studying, who identifies them to someone else?

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

3. What has a Russian ruler offered the stranger in return for something he wants?

4. What is the most accurate description of the Tartars' appearance?

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

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