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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the boy when he is running?
(a) He meets a pretty girl.
(b) He trips, falls and hits his head.
(c) He finds a hurt hawk.
(d) Nothing.

2. What does the boy realize about the village?
(a) He is no longer safe there.
(b) The village is too small for him.
(c) The people in it are religious.
(d) The people in it loved his mother.

3. What does Crispin do for the next two days?
(a) Hides in the mountains.
(b) Stays with a woodcutter.
(c) Walks south on the road.
(d) Stays in the basement of the church.

4. What does Bear say his father did to him?
(a) Beat him everyday.
(b) Gave him to the church.
(c) Sold him into slavery.
(d) Made him learn to steal.

5. How does Bear know Lord Furnival?
(a) He was a blacksmith in his manor.
(b) He knew him when he was a soldier.
(c) He knew Furnival's cook.
(d) He was one of his couriers.

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

7. Who looks at Bear and Crispin with hatred while the two are entertaining the villagers?
(a) A dull-witted boy.
(b) A one-eyed man.
(c) An elderly woman.
(d) A priest.

8. What does the man tell Crispin?
(a) He is wanted by the law.
(b) He will take Crispin as an apprentice.
(c) He does not need another mouth to feed.
(d) He is Crispin's new lord.

9. Where is the man going when Crispin meets him?
(a) Wellington.
(b) Great Wexley.
(c) London.
(d) Birmingham.

10. What does Crispin realize about the people in the the place he finds?
(a) They have all died from the plague.
(b) They could be very near.
(c) They will be returning.
(d) They have moved somewhere.

11. What position does John Aycliffe hold in the village?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Steward of the Manor.
(c) Constable.
(d) School teacher.

12. What does Crispin go into a village?
(a) To rent a room in an inn.
(b) To get help from someone.
(c) To find new clothes.
(d) To look for food.

13. What does the boy do the day after his mother dies?
(a) Stays with his friend Jamie's family.
(b) Cries himself to sleep.
(c) Heads to a larger city.
(d) Hides out.

14. Where does Bear say he and Crispin are going?
(a) Sussex.
(b) London.
(c) Essex.
(d) Canterbury.

15. With what does the man threaten Crispin?
(a) To take him back to Crispin's village.
(b) A beating.
(c) Taking him to his father.
(d) Tying him up and leaving him to starve.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is the noise Crispin hear coming?

2. Who does Crispin see ride past towards the south?

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

4. How is the boy at the beginning of the book known?

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

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