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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poet does Cromwell read after his wife’s death?
(a) Ariosto.
(b) Bembo.
(c) Petrarch.
(d) Dante.

2. With whom had Tyndale lodged?
(a) Benedict Catherington.
(b) Reginald Barclay.
(c) Virgil Compton.
(d) Humphrey Monmouth.

3. Under what sign was the world supposedly made?
(a) Aries.
(b) Scorpio.
(c) Pisces.
(d) Cancer.

4. Which of the following does Cromwell train to assist with his finances?
(a) Simon Parker.
(b) Philip Robinson.
(c) Andrew Duncan.
(d) Thomas Avery.

5. Whom does the King dispatch as a messenger to Wolsey?
(a) Jake Smith.
(b) Bobby Morris.
(c) Harry Norris.
(d) Jimmy Butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following serves Anne Boleyn as a musician?

2. What name does Cromwell give his dog?

3. What stone is in the ring Wolsey gives Cromwell?

4. In what month and year does Wolsey begin to investigate the King’s marriage to Katherine?

5. What is the name of Wolsey’s fool?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can Cromwell’s sister and her husband not employ Cromwell?

2. Why do diplomats tend not to learn English in the novel?

3. What is Wolsey’s plan for monastic reform?

4. What sours the Boleyns on Wolsey?

5. In what trade is Cromwell’s wife employed?

6. What advice would Cromwell offer himself for Christmas, were he likely to take it?

7. How does Cromwell put nobles into his debt?

8. How does Cromwell delay Wolsey’s dispossession?

9. Why does Cromwell’s son complain of his greyhounds?

10. How does Wolsey ease his servitors against his dispossession?

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