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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. Anne and Grace Cromwell have been deceased for how many years by the time depicted in Chapter 1: Falcons?
2. When Cromwell returns to court, he tells Henry that he believes that Katherine ought to be allowed to visit which person?
3. Jane Seymour's father has what first name?
4. What role does Henry ask Jane to take on at court in Chapter 2: Crows?
5. In which season of 1535 does Chapter 2: Crows take place?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does the motif of journeys or paths arise within Chapter 2: Crows?
2. Who is Mark Smeaton?
3. How does the theme of appearance versus reality arise within Chapter 1: Falcons?
4. Who are the Plantagenets and what do they believe about the Tudors, according to Cromwell?
5. What is Cromwell's plan for gathering the funds needed to fill Henry's coffers?
6. What is the significance of Henry's request that Jane become his "good mistress" (97)?
7. In what way does Mantel use Cromwell's character to discuss class differences in Chapter 2: Crows?
8. In what way does the epigraph of Bring Up the Bodies strike an ironic tone?
9. For what reason is Cromwell so surprised to see Stephen Gardiner when Chapter 2: Crows begins?
10. What evidence does the narrator provide for the conclusion that Henry has aged a great deal in the past five years?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Mantel's choice to tell the story of Bring Up the Bodies using a third person omniscient narrator to represent various characters’ points of view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Mantel’s intended effects on the reader?
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