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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 stone is in the ring Wolsey gives Cromwell?

2. To whom is the King compared?

3. To whom had Anne Boleyn been in service?

4. Under what sign was the world supposedly made?

5. What name does Cromwell give his dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Cromwell done while his father shod horses?

2. In the novel, what is an estoc?

3. Why does Cromwell not host an Epiphany feast in 1530?

4. How does Wolsey react to illness?

5. How does the Bishop of London treat Lutherans in the novel?

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

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

8. What message is conveyed by the award of a ring by the King to Wolsey?

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

10. How does the King expect people to respond to his generosity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Wolf Hall? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than historical fiction might Wolf Hall be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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