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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. From which of the following does Cromwell borrow a change of clothes?

2. Where does the King spend Christmas with Katherine?

3. What is Wolsey’s hometown?

4. In which of the following does Bonvisi have a house?

5. What dish served by Bonvisi does Cromwell commend?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rafe explain Cromwell’s adherence to Wolsey?

2. Why is Wolsey in doubt of his investigation into the King’s marriage to Katherine?

3. How does Wolsey react to illness?

4. Why does Cromwell disclaim particular skill with the longbow?

5. In the novel, what prompts the King to seek a new wife?

6. Why does Cromwell send red meat to Wolsey during Lent?

7. What sours the Boleyns on Wolsey?

8. What prompts Anne Boleyn to first summon Cromwell?

9. In the novel, what is an estoc?

10. Why does Cromwell set aside More’s idea that the soldiers sacking Rome are roasting babies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate Cromwell’s rumination: “When daylight came, the room felt so empty it was empty even of him” (142).

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Wolf Hall do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Wolf Hall bear as much out?

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