Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi
In which book……
Is a boy is accused of stealing from the steward. Who is the boy and who is the steward?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Asta’s son/Crispin and John Aycliffe
Does a boy discovers that he has a real name. What is the name and what is unusual about it?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Crispin – it is a royal name
Does a story opens with a death. Who died in what country and what year?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Asta, England, 1377
Is a boy is accused of being a thief and is hunted down. What is the real reason he is being pursued?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Crispin – he isLord Furnival’s son
Does a boy’s friend pretends to help him, but betrays him. Who was the friend and what did he do?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Cerdic lead Crispin into a trap
Does a kind older man try to help a boy, but fails to show up at the meeting point. What is the name of the man and why didn’t he show up?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Father Quinel (the priest)- he was killed
Is a boy is told to flee to a city where, after a time, he could be free. How long must he stay away in order to be free?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, a year and a day
Is a boy is born in England in 1363. Who is the king that is ruling at the time?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, King Edward the Third
Is a boy is named a ‘wolf’s head’. What does that mean?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, means that he is not considered human and that anyone can kill him
Is there an abandoned village where a boy meets a man with a strange hat in an old church. Who is the man and what does he do?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Orson Hrothgar, or Bear. He is a juggler.
Does John Aycliffe meet someone in the woods? Who does he meet and who sees them?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, he meets Richard du Brey and Crispin sees them
Does Asta and her son live a rough life in a village? What is the name of the village?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Stromford
Does Crispin travel with Bear to a great walled city? What is the name of the city and during what event do they arrive?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Great Wexly at the Feast of St John the Baptist or Midsummer
Do Bear and a boy enter a city through a large black entrance? What was the entrance called?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Bishop’s Gate
Does a boy meet a man called Bear? What is Bear doing when the boy discovers him?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, singing and playing a drum in an abandoned church
Does a boy meet a man called Bear? What does Bear do?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, he’s a juggler
Does a man called Bear offer a boy some food? What does the man make the boy do before he allows him to eat?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Bear makes the boy swear to be his servant
Does a boy and a man named Bear travel together on the road? Why didn’t they see many people along the way at first?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, they were killed by the pestilence or the plague
Does a boy see a man juggling some leather balls? What does the boy think of this?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, he thinks the balls are enchanted
Does Bear tell a boy about his life before he became a juggler? What two things did he do?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, he studied to become a priest but never took his vows, and was a soldier
Does Bear tell a boy about his younger days? What skill has Bear learned that prevents him from being hanged?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Bear can read and is treated like a priest
Does Bear tie a boy to a tree? With what does Bear return?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, a rabbit to cook and eat
Does a man wear a hat split in two? What is the meaning of the two halves?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, reminds us there is good AND bad, two sides to everyone
Does Bear notice something unusual along the road to Burley that makes him suspicious? What does he notice and what causes it?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Bear notices a flock of birds that are agitated because of Aycliffe’s men
Do Bear and a boy perform in the village of Lodgecot? What news do they hear that upsets the boy?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, that the people of Stromford are calling Crispin a murderer now
Do Bear and a boy perform in the village of Lodgecot? Who in the village makes the boy uneasy?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, the young man with the eye patch
Does a boy and Bear enter a great city? What assaulted the boy’s senses more than anything?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, the stench (of rotting food, human waste, dung)
Does a boy enter a great walled city for the first time? To what does he compare the noise of all the people?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, a flock of screaming crows
Is there a great walled city? What was the colour of the fabric that was draped from many buildings and what did it mean?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, black – someone important has died
Does Bear have business in Great Wexly? To what establishment in the city does he take the boy?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, The Green Man Tavern or The Green Man Inn
Does a boy and Bear stay at an inn? Who runs the inn?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, the widow Daventry
Does a boy see a fine lady ride by on a horse? Who was she and what colour was her dress?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Lady Furnival, blue with gold fur trim
Does a boy disobey Bear’s orders the first time to stay in the room at the inn? In which building does the boy end up seeing a familiar but unfriendly face, and who did he see?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, the great cathedral or church and John Aycliffe
Does a boy help Widow Daventry in the kitchen? What happens to one of the items being baked?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, Crispin accidentally dropped it on the ground and then ate it
Does a boy notice someone may be spying on him and Bear? Who does the boy see come into the tavern, then later, follow Bear?
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD, AVI, the one-eyed young man or young man with the eye patch from Lodgecot village