Crispin's Struggles
This is how the villagers treated Asta and her son.
What is shunned and taunted?
He was known for cruel punishments such as whippings and hangings.
Who is John Aycliffe?
The age Crispin was at the start of the novel.
What is thirteen?
The place Crispin overlooks all of Stromford.
Crispin's rock.
The object Crispin’s mother left him, which he chose to keep.
What is the cross of lead?
The only person Asta trusted and confided in.
Who is Father Quinel?
He was often the target of bullying in the village.
Who is Crispin?
The disease that took Crispin's father's life.
What is the Great Mortality (Black Plague)?
The claim made by the steward against Crispin.
What is he had broken into the manor and stolen money?
The person Crispin saw riding back toward Stromford.
Who is the bailiff?
The reason Crispin felt he was being punished and abandoned.
What is believing God was punishing him?
The only person Crispin trusted besides his mother.
Who is Father Quinel?
What the villagers did from dawn to dusk.
What is working Lord Furnival’s fields?
Where Crispin was hidden when he saw Aycliffe and his armed men.
What is a great oak tree?
The mysterious wisdom of Goodwife Peregrine.
What is healing, midwifery, and ancient magic?
The consequence of being declared a "wolf’s head."
What is anyone could kill him?
The person who led Crispin to Goodwife Peregrine's cottage and subsequently into a trap.
Who is Cerdic?
What happened to Crispin’s home after his mother died.
What is burned to the ground?
The reason Crispin couldn’t swim across the river.
What is men were waiting at the fording place?
The warning Father Quinel gave Crispin about his future.
What is find a town with its own liberties to live free?
The moment that forced Crispin to flee for his life.
What is Aycliffe’s failed attempt to kill him?
The man who sealed Crispin’s fate with a parchment.
Who is an unnamed messenger?
The ultimate protector of the villagers from outside forces.
Who is Lord Furnival?
The horrible discovery Crispin made before fleeing.
What is Father Quinel’s dead body with his throat slit?
The surprising capabilities of Crispin's mother, Asta.
What is reading and writing?