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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bear say about Furnival?
(a) He is a good soldier.
(b) He is a decent lord.
(c) He is a cruel, greedy and arrogant man.
(d) He cannot fight at all.

2. Who tells Crispin Quinel cannot meet him that night?
(a) Crispin's friend Jamie.
(b) Cedric.
(c) Blacksmith Jones.
(d) The alcolyte.

3. How does the boy feel about joining the villagers?
(a) He is too afraid to join them.
(b) He is grateful for their attitude about his mother.
(c) He decides to wait and see.
(d) He joins their fun.

4. What does Bear begin teaching Crispin the second morning they are together?
(a) How to kill a squirrel.
(b) How to play cards.
(c) An instrument.
(d) How to build a fire.

5. What does Bear pretend when looking at Crispin's cross?
(a) That Bear cannot touch the cross.
(b) That Bear knows who used to own it.
(c) That the cross used to belong to Bear.
(d) That Bear cannot read the words written on it.

6. Where does the boy run when he is upset about Aycliffe's demand?
(a) Into the meadow.
(b) Down to the sea.
(c) Into the forest.
(d) Down the road.

7. What does Crispin decide to do after seeing inside a house?
(a) Takes the sword.
(b) Hides to see if the people will return to eat.
(c) Get away from the village quickly.
(d) Examines the toy.

8. What does Crispin decide to do?
(a) Serve the man.
(b) Eat some of the man's food.
(c) Kill the man.
(d) Run into the woods.

9. How does Crispin feel about the man's behavior?
(a) Puzzled.
(b) Happy.
(c) Resentful and angry.
(d) Frightened.

10. Where does the boy go the night after his mother dies?
(a) To the church.
(b) To the manor.
(c) To the river.
(d) To Goodwife Haverty's house.

11. Of what does Bear say he is part?
(a) A secret brotherhood.
(b) A large family.
(c) A group of non Christians.
(d) A group of performers.

12. How does Crispin feel about what the steward has declared?
(a) He is happy about it.
(b) He argues about it.
(c) He does not understand why he did it.
(d) He agrees with it.

13. What worries the boy about Aycliffe's demand?
(a) That the villagers will not help him.
(b) That Aycliffe is angry at him.
(c) That Aycliffe will continue to ask for more.
(d) That the boy will be unable to earn a living.

14. What is Crispin's reaction to learning what Bear is teaching?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Pride.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Embarrassment.

15. Who is John Aycliffe?
(a) Crispin's father.
(b) The steward of Stromford.
(c) The mayor of Wycliff.
(d) The monk at the monastery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crispin do when he lies beside the road?

2. What does Bear begin to teach Crispin?

3. What does the man tell Crispin is his name?

4. What does Quinel tell Crispin he should do?

5. What does Bear make Crispin do in the morning?

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