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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 has More been given as a bribe at the beginning of the play?

2. Rich tells Cromwell that it will be hard to ___________More.

3. What does the surprise visitor say he could do to Norfolk?

4. Who is visibly upset about More being punished for not being found?

5. What does More say his daughter's suitor must do before he marries his daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does More say to the Headsman just before he is executed?

2. What does Alice want More to do when she sees Will leaving, and what is More's response?

3. What does More's steward say to the audience about the information he gave the men in Scene 6?

4. What does Henry tell More when they are together alone in More's garden?

5. What does Rich say would cause him to reveal Cromwell's new job, and how does Cromwell respond to this answer?

6. How did the Common Man say Wolsey died?

7. What has Cromwell learned from reading Machiavelli?

8. What is said in the first lines of Act 2?

9. What does Chapuys say will happen if Henry is allowed to divorce Catherine?

10. Why is More opposed to the divorce of King Henry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the titles given to the two acts in this play? What significance did this have to the plot?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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