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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapter 3: Angels .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cromwell remarks that Ireland has seen more peace this year than in the last how many years?
(a) 40.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

2. How does Anne react to Cromwell's news about Katherine's requests for visitors?
(a) She faints.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She leaps out of her chair.
(d) She sobs.

3. On Christmas morning, Cromwell encounters his nephew Richard, who is dressed in a costume resembling which creature?
(a) A frog.
(b) A lion.
(c) A gryphon.
(d) A unicorn.

4. In what month had Henry left Whitehall with the royal procession?
(a) June.
(b) May.
(c) September.
(d) July.

5. When Cromwell ponders the mutability of humankind, he decides that what object "makes monsters" (33)?
(a) War.
(b) Disease.
(c) Famine.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position in Henry's court did Gardiner hold before he was banished from court and made to live in the countryside?

2. In what location did Henry and Anne first engage in a sexual encounter, according to Cromwell?

3. When Cromwell arrives at Austin Friars in Part One, Chapter 3: Angels, he finds Gregory and some other boys making the Pope and "a set of cardinals" (131) out of what material?

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

5. Rumor has it that Cromwell instigated the arrest of his new love interest's husband and that he framed him for committing what crime?

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