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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What clue does Elzbietka receive that Joseph is in trouble?
(a) She hears him play the Heynal with the traditional stop on the broken note.
(b) She does not hear the trumpet being played at all.
(c) She hears him play the Heynal without stopping on the broken note.
(d) She hears Michael yelling at him to look for the crystal.

2. What is the best description of the music heard in the Church of Our Lady Mary?
(a) Notes float down from above like God's own music from heaven.
(b) A flute playing the Heynal.
(c) The organ playing horrible music.
(d) The organ playing beautiful hymns.

3. What does the king give to Pan Andrew?
(a) He returns the crystal to him.
(b) He gives him a spot in the king's guard.
(c) He gives him a heavy gold chain.
(d) He gives him a room at the palace.

4. How is the Vistula River different?
(a) It is dried up.
(b) It now swings far to the left and surrounds the new city.
(c) It turns at Wawel Hill.
(d) It plunges striaght through the Krakow plain.

5. Who arrives at the tower with Nicholas Kreutz?
(a) Elzbietka arrives with Kreutz.
(b) Peter of the Button Face arrives with Kreutz.
(c) Pan Andrew arrives with Kreutz.
(d) Jan Kanty arrives with Kreutz.

6. What best describes how the music is played in the Epilogue?
(a) One time the trumpter sounds the Heynal.
(b) Five times the trumpeter sounds the Heynal.
(c) Four times the flutist sounds the Heynal, once at each of the four windows.
(d) Four times the trumpeter sounds the Heynal, once at each of the four windows.

7. How does Pan Andrew describe the individual who he thinks stole the treasure?
(a) Half Mongol, half Polish.
(b) Half Cossack, half Ukrainian.
(c) Half Mongol, half Cossack.
(d) Half Polish, half Ukrainian.

8. What is the name of Peter of the Button Face's assistant when they attack the church?
(a) James, known in Ukraine as "The Snake."
(b) Andrew, Pan Andrew's cousin.
(c) Michael, known in Ukraine as "The Snake."
(d) Stas, the old woman's son.

9. Because Pan Andrew is so depressed about the treasure being gone, what does Joseph often do?
(a) He gets his father an audience with the king.
(b) He lets his father sleep and plays the Heynal on the trumpet through the night.
(c) He cheers him up by finding the treasure.
(d) He does all of the marketplace shopping for the family.

10. Where does Pan Andrew think his treasure is once he discovers it missing?
(a) With Nicholas Kreutz.
(b) With Stas.
(c) With Ivan of Russia.
(d) With Peter of the Button Face.

11. What does the inside of the Church of Our Lady Mary look like?
(a) A church covered in statues.
(b) A church covered in marble.
(c) A plain, unadorned church.
(d) It has exquisite wood carvings and a vaulted roof of sky blue studded with stars.

12. In Chapter 13, what does Kreutz put in the middle of the room?
(a) He puts up a tripod with the Great Tarnov Crystal on it in the middle of the room
(b) He places Peter's pot of gold in the middle of the room.
(c) He puts a pumpkin on a tripod in the middle of the room.
(d) He places a cauldron with chemicals in the middle of the room.

13. What does Kreutz say he has done to obtain the item he places in the middle of the room?
(a) He says that he stole it and has perjured his soul.
(b) He says that he had to lie to get the stone.
(c) He says that he asked permission from the king to get the stone.
(d) He says that he had to kill someone to get the stone.

14. Once help is summoned in Chapter 12, what happens?
(a) Peter and his men attack the Krakow watchmen and take Kanty hostage.
(b) Peter and his men flee the tower when they see the watchmen coming.
(c) The king and his men save Pan Andrew from the tower.
(d) The thirty watchmen free Pan Andrew and remove the thieves.

15. What instrument is playing in the church in the Epilogue?
(a) The flute.
(b) The organ.
(c) The piano.
(d) The trumpet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what happens to the Great Tarnov Crystal?

2. What was renovated during the Renaissance?

3. Where does the reader learn Peter of the Button Face is going after having left Krakow for a few months?

4. When Pan Andrew arrives home after the explosions, what does he find?

5. Whose help is Ivan the Great seeking for what he wants?

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