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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapter 2: Crows.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a positive trait Cromwell attributes to his son Gregory?
(a) A facility for riding horses.
(b) Impeccable manners.
(c) A facility for Latin.
(d) A facility for archery.

2. Who had originally requested the open letter that Gardiner brings to Cromwell in Chapter 2: Crows?
(a) Suffolk.
(b) Cromwell.
(c) Seymour.
(d) Henry.

3. What is the Seymour family's residence called?
(a) Kimbolton Hall.
(b) Wolf Hall.
(c) Richmond Palace.
(d) Hampton Court.

4. Cromwell used to be the servant of which character, who has since been executed by Henry?
(a) More.
(b) Norris.
(c) Wyatt.
(d) Wolsey.

5. Henry and Anne had their first sexual encounter in the autumn of which year?
(a) 1532.
(b) 1551.
(c) 1534.
(d) 1533.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cromwell finds Rafe and Gregory pretending to maim and murder which character in Chapter 1: Falcons?

2. Which family member of Edward Seymour's was reported by many to have slept with his wife around 120 times?

3. The new bishops installed once the royal progress reaches Winchester had been chosen by whom?

4. When Cromwell ponders the mutability of humankind, he decides that what object "makes monsters" (33)?

5. Which of the five senses does Mantel use to depict Austin Friars "in the autumn of 1535" (72)?

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