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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 the boy tell Father Quinel about the accusations about him?
(a) Everything belongs to him anyway.
(b) He did not steal.
(c) He did not take much.
(d) He thought about stealing.

2. What does Bear say has to happen for a person to have a life?
(a) To ask questions.
(b) To have one good friend.
(c) To travel to at least three other countries.
(d) To have loved on good woman.

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

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

5. Why can Bear not be hung?
(a) His father is rich.
(b) He is too big.
(c) He can read and write.
(d) He is the nephew of the king.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aycliffe do when he sees the boy?

2. How do Bear and Crispin know to hide?

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

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

5. To whom is John Aycliffe talking?

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

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

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

5. What does Bear tell Crispin about his childhood?

6. Why does the boy go to the church, and what does the priest first tell him?

7. Why does Crispin agree to serve the man?

8. How did Bear pick up his trade?

9. How is the boy in the first chapter known in his village, what happens to his mother and who helps him with her?

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

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