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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What position does Stephen Gardiner currently hold, even though he has been banished to the countryside?
2. What is the name of Cromwell's son?
3. When Cromwell ponders the mutability of humankind, he decides that what objects "breed gentle manners" (33)?
4. Cromwell believes that bishops like Hugh Latimer see which character as "an opportunity" (33)?
5. For what transgression is Gardiner being punished with exile in Chapter 2: Crows?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Princess Mary now only referred to as Lady Mary?
2. How does Jane react to Henry's question about her shyness in Chapter 1: Falcons?
3. In what way does the epigraph of Bring Up the Bodies strike an ironic tone?
4. How does Mantel use sensory details concerning sound to portray specific qualities of life at Austin Friars, Cromwell's estate?
5. What examples does Cromwell provide to support his assertion that no one's fate is ever set in stone?
6. What evidence does the narrator provide for the conclusion that Henry has aged a great deal in the past five years?
7. What is the significance of Henry's request that Jane become his "good mistress" (97)?
8. Discuss Mantel's use of personification to depict Stephen Gardiner, Cromwell's predecessor.
9. How does Mantel use irony to portray the paradox within Henry's persona?
10. For what reason is Cromwell so surprised to see Stephen Gardiner when Chapter 2: Crows begins?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Mantel's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Bring Up the Bodies.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Mantel in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Bring Up the Bodies. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Mantel’s creation of vivid characters (many of whom are based on real people) to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Bring Up the Bodies and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
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