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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapter 1: Falcons.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a rumored method to explain how Cromwell "has achieved his present eminence" (6)?
(a) He rose to prominence with the Boleyns.
(b) He paid off the Pope.
(c) He associates with sorcerers.
(d) He knew the late Cardinal Wolsey's secrets.

2. Jane asserts in Chapter 1: Falcons that Mary Shelton is teaching her what language?
(a) Italian.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

3. Cromwell tells Edward Seymour that his compliments about which character have turned Anne against Cromwell?
(a) Jane.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Mary.

4. With what activity is the term "tilt yard" (13) associated?
(a) Eating.
(b) Torturing.
(c) Jousting.
(d) Bloodletting.

5. Who falls asleep at the supper table on the first night spent at Wolf Hall?
(a) Harry.
(b) Henry.
(c) Anne.
(d) Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reaches out to "save" (13) Gregory when he begins to take exception to Weston's comments about his late mother and sister?

2. Everyone at the supper table at Wolf Hall looks at which character when Henry mentions Cardinal Wolsey?

3. Before their first sexual encounter, Anne made Henry "swear an oath on the Bible, that he would" take what action "as soon as they were back on English soil" (18)?

4. Which courtier was executed the same week as Henry left Whitehall to go on progress?

5. Which character does Jane name as the man who knows all of the women's secrets at court?

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