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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aycliffe do when he sees the boy?
(a) He throws a rock at him.
(b) He shouts.
(c) He grabs his arm.
(d) He ignores him.

3. How does the man treat Crispin?
(a) He mocks him and treats him as if Crispin is stupid.
(b) He ignores him.
(c) As if Crispin is his younger brother.
(d) Like the son of Lord Furnival.

4. Who helps the boy bury his mother?
(a) Father Quinel.
(b) No one.
(c) The blacksmith.
(d) His best friend, Jamie.

5. How is the boy at the beginning of the book known?
(a) As Mary's son.
(b) As Bear.
(c) As Dummy.
(d) As Asta's son.

6. What does the man the boy does not know do when he sees the boy?
(a) Throws him to the ground.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Draws his sword and goes towards him.
(d) Restrains Aycliffe.

7. What does Quinel tell Crispin he should do?
(a) Run away to the city.
(b) Hide in the woods for a week.
(c) Go find his father.
(d) Join the church to become a priest.

8. Who does Crispin see at the village?
(a) A large man.
(b) Woman with a child.
(c) Two little girls.
(d) A teenage boy.

9. What does the man tell Crispin is his name?
(a) Henry.
(b) Orson.
(c) Peter.
(d) Topper.

10. What does Bear begin to teach Crispin?
(a) How to use a sword.
(b) How to shoe a horse.
(c) To juggle and sing.
(d) How to read and write.

11. Why does the boy move towards a clearing?
(a) He needs more light to see where he is.
(b) To see who is talking.
(c) He thinks he hears a wolf.
(d) He thinks he hears Aycliffe.

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

13. What does Bear get for them to eat?
(a) A pile of mushrooms.
(b) Three squirrels.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A deer.

14. What happens to the boy's cottage?
(a) It is leaking water in the rain.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It is burned by the bailiff.
(d) Someone moves into it.

15. What is Crispin eventually able to do?
(a) Use a sword.
(b) Convince Bear to keep him untied.
(c) Play a tune.
(d) Use a bow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two men talking about the boy say about the steward?

2. What does the boy realize about the village?

3. What does Aycliffe say to the man?

4. What does Bear say is the reason he thinks his father did what he did?

5. What does Bear want Crispin to do the next morning?

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