Crispin: The Cross of Lead

“Since you are a wolf’s head you might as well have some fangs.’ This is best described as which of the following?

• dialect

• figurative language

• alliteration

What will ‘Bear do to help Crispin have fangs?

• Take him to a dentist.

• Use metal to grind his teeth.

• Teach him to be a wolf.

• Teach him skills to defend himself.

Bear taught the boy all listed EXCEPT which one?

• To snare small animals for food.

• To play a recorder.

• To juggle cloth balls.

• To look to the ground as a servant.

“True you’re as ignorant as a turnip—or perhaps a cabbage, but you have a heart of oak, small acorn though you are.” This is an example of which figurative language?

• simile9

• metaphor

• simile & metaphor

• pefsonification

What appeared as teeth to Crispin in chapter 33?

• glaives

• sword

• cutlass

• porticullis

In chapter 34, “Atill what assaulted my senses more than anything was the ensuing cacophony and the stench that filled the air.” Cacophony most likely means………

• overhanging roof

• tall trees and vegetation

• smelly, putrid scents

What might be inferred by the last statement in chapter 35, “Father Quinel had once told me at confession: A moment of silence in the midst of talk means death’s angel is close at hand, I shuddered.”

• Death is imminent.

• Angels are real.

• Silence is a virtue.

The boy we met in the beginning of the book would have never taken it upon himself to leave the inn and go exploring in such a huge city. What can we accredit to his change in behavior?

• He has Bear’s dagger to defend himself.

• He has grown and gained instruction during his time with Bear.

• He has false bravado.

Whom, in chapter 38, cried “There, the boy, the wolf’s head! Catch him!

• William du Brey

• John Aycliffe

• Orson Hrothgar

• Bear

Crispin has learned to be observant as Bear has taught him, who does Crispin realize was hiding in the shadows watching the inn?

• John Ball

• Two soldiers

• Goodwife Peregrine

• The fellow with the eye patch.