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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 is Robin’s immediate concern about his new mode of transportation in Section 4?
(a) What his friends will think.
(b) What Brother Luke will think.
(c) What his father will think.
(d) What his mother will think.

2. What does Robin ask Brother Luke to teach him?
(a) To cook
(b) To sew.
(c) To sing.
(d) To read.

3. How does Brother Luke help Robin with his crafting?
(a) He takes Robin to and from the shop.
(b) He brings him supplies.
(c) He helps him measure the wood.
(d) He helps him whittle.

4. How does Brother Luke get Robin to eat?
(a) He doesn’t.
(b) He forces him to eat.
(c) He asks him to eat until he does so.
(d) He merely waits patiently.

5. What does Geoffrey call Robin?
(a) Cripple.
(b) Crookshanks.
(c) Master.
(d) Dog boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 1, what does Brother Luke explain has happened to Ellen?

2. What does Robin ask Brother Luke to do in Section 3?

3. Where is Robin’s father at the beginning of the novel?

4. What is the wooden object Robin begins whittling at the opening of Section 4?

5. Who resides in the almonry of St. Luke’s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Robin’s actions, in relation to Ellen, at the beginning of the novel.

2. Explain how Robin comes to whittle a boat and a cross.

3. Where are Robin’s mother and father in Section 1?

4. What is expected of Robin, in terms of his future, and why is this at risk?

5. Explain what happened to Robin that makes him require assistance.

6. What does John-go-in-the-Wynd bring back for Robin in Section 5, and what is its significance to the novel, and to Robin?

7. Describe the afternoon on the road in Section 5. Why does Robin develop the urge to walk, and what does the peasant tell them about hunting for wood?

8. Describe what happens to cause Robin’s outburst in Section 3, and Brother Matthew’s response.

9. Describe what Robin sees and hears during his first days at St. Mark’s.

10. Explain what Brother Luke means when he says reading is another door in the wall.

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