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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Crispin feel about being on his own?
(a) Confident.
(b) Excited but wary.
(c) Tired and frightened.
(d) Happy.

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

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

4. How do Bear and Crispin know to hide?
(a) The woods are totally silent.
(b) They see pigeons acting disturbed.
(c) The hear the sound of men on horseback.
(d) They hear the squirrels chattering.

5. Why is Father Quinel lying in the road?
(a) He has lost his cross and is looking for it.
(b) He has been murdered.
(c) He is hiding waiting for Crispin.
(d) He tripped and fell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crispin do for the next two days?

2. What does Bear do when they stop for the night?

3. How does the man treat Crispin?

4. What does Crispin tell Bear about Lord Furnival?

5. Who does Crispin see at the village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Crispin find on the south road and what does he think about it?

2. What do the man and Crispin do after Crispin has agreed to serve the man?

3. Why does Bear look at Crispin's cross, and what does Crispin think about Bear's statement about the cross?

4. What does Crispin decide to do and what happens when he feels too frightened and tired to go on?

5. Why does Crispin go into a house, what does he see, how does he react and what does he hear as he is running away?

6. What does Bear tell Crispin he does in his travels?

7. Who is the man Crispin has agreed to serve, and what does he do for a living?

8. Why can't Bear be hung?

9. How did Bear pick up his trade?

10. What does Crispin find as he is walking, and what does he realize about the place?

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