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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. The narrator states that Henry calls for what item a lot more frequently than he had five years before?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The pipe.
(c) The wine jug.
(d) The tobacco.

2. What is the first name of the oldest male child in the Seymour family?
(a) Charles.
(b) Gregory.
(c) Edward.
(d) Tom.

3. Who reaches out to "save" (13) Gregory when he begins to take exception to Weston's comments about his late mother and sister?
(a) Cromwell.
(b) Jane.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Henry.

4. In what location did Henry and Anne first engage in a sexual encounter, according to Cromwell?
(a) Padua.
(b) Greece.
(c) Calais.
(d) Rome.

5. Anne and Grace Cromwell have been deceased for how many years by the time depicted in Chapter 1: Falcons?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a rumored method to explain how Cromwell "has achieved his present eminence" (6)?

2. About how many years old is Cromwell when the novel opens?

3. Charles, the emperor of Spain, is related to the late Katherine of Aragon in what way?

4. When the novel opens, the narrator states that "England has enjoyed" how many years "of peace" (5)?

5. Who is King Henry VIII's current wife when Chapter 1: Falcons begins?

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