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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. What do the two men talking about the boy say about the steward?
(a) He is a generous person.
(b) He is a corrupt and bad man.
(c) He is very efficient.
(d) He has restrained Furnival from hurting the village.

2. From where is the noise Crispin hear coming?
(a) The church.
(b) The forest.
(c) The south road.
(d) The town hall.

3. What time is it when the boy wakes up?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Night-time.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Late evening.

4. How could Crispin become free?
(a) Move to another country.
(b) Find his father.
(c) Make Aycliffe prove his charges.
(d) To not get caught for a year and a day.

5. What does the man do to earn a living?
(a) He is a juggler.
(b) He is a hunter.
(c) He is a blacksmith.
(d) He is a courier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crispin assume about his father?

2. What does Bear show Crispin how to do that night at camp?

3. Who does Crispin see at the village?

4. Who tells Crispin Quinel cannot meet him that night?

5. Why can Bear not be hung?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bear feel about what they see and what do he and Crispin do about it?

2. How does the boy feel about what he is told, and what does he do about it?

3. What do the two men say about the steward, and how does the boy think about what they say?

4. Who meets the boy and the man helping him, and what does that man tell the boy?

5. How does Bear provide dinner for him and Crispin and what does Bear say about the dinner and how he feels about it?

6. How did Bear pick up his trade?

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

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

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

10. What does the boy hear when he wakes?

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