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Who was the one person Crispin could trust at the beginning of the novel?
Father Quinel
When did John Aycliffe first try to kill Crispin?
When Crispin overheard his conversation with another man in the forest.
Why did Father Quinel not tell Crispin about his father as he had promised?
He was murdered
What did Bear talk to Crispin about when they first met?
His hatred for tyranny and his belief that people should live free from their masters
After Bear made Crispin wash up in a stream, what did Bear challenge him to think of?
What he might become if he were cleansed of his thirteen years of dirt, neglect and servitude.
Crispin was known only as __________
Asta's son
How did Crispin find out about his name?
Father Quinel told him.
When Crispin was hiding in the forest, who did he see riding by on their horses?
John Aycliffe, a stranger and the baliff
master
Why was Crispin not sure that he had a soul?
Because he had never felt it.
How did the villagers treat Asta?
She was shunned
Father Quinel advised Crispin to leave Stromford and...
go to another town or city for a year and a day to gain his freedom.
Why could Bear read and write?
His father has abandoned him in an abbey where he studied to become a priest
Bear's plan that Crispin should help him entertain was so they could ____________
"prosper greatly"
What year/ time period did Crispin's story take place?
700s, 1100s, 1200s, 1300s, 1400s?
What was this time period called?
1377 (exact) / 1300s (general)
Medieval Times
Why didn't Crispin know what was written on his mother's cross?
Because he couldn't read.
What was Bear doing when Crispin first saw him in the church?
How did Bear learn the languages of song, hand, foot and laughter?
By traveling and performing with a group of mummers
Why did Bear and Crispin leave the main road while traveling? Who did they see at the bridge?
They saw John Aycliffe and a dozen armed men
What was John Aycliffe's title? Who was he?
The steward of Lord Furnival
How did John Aycliffe make it legal for anyone to kill Crispin?
He declared him a wolf's head
Describe Bear's appearance and what he was wearing?
He was a tall, large man with a red beard and a two-pointed hat with bells
How did Bear know about Lord Furnival's true character?
He had fought as a soldier with him in France.
After Bear looked at the writing on his mother's cross, Crispin was certain that Bear _____________
Found a meaning he was not prepared to tell.