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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 does Bear want Crispin to do while Bear performs?
(a) Play the recorder.
(b) Play the lyre.
(c) Juggle.
(d) Collect money.

2. What does the man do when Crispin answers him?
(a) Slaps him in the face.
(b) Laughs at him.
(c) Pushes him into a chair.
(d) Grabs him.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bear do after the performers disbanded?

2. Where does Crispin manage to lose the steward and his men?

3. What is the village Bear and Crispin reach?

4. What does Aycliffe say to the man?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Asta's son do the day after he slept in the village, and what does he hear two men say about him?

3. Why can't Bear be hung?

4. What does Crispin tell Bear about the Lord of the manor in Stromford and what does Bear say about that Lord/

5. What does the boy see after he spends the night in the forest, and what does he realize?

6. How does the man treat Crispin and how does Crispin feel about it?

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

8. How does Crispin feel about his situation, and what does Father Quinel tell him to do?

9. What does Crispin do when he sees a group of men waiting for him?

10. What do Bear and Crispin see in the distance, and what is at the bridge?

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