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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. Whom does Wolsey bid Cromwell retrieve?

2. What Parliamentary seat does Cromwell receive?

3. What fruit does Wolsey favor?

4. What title is conferred on the father of Anne Boleyn?

5. As which of the following does the novel gloss “Diolch am yr arian”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Cromwell doubt that Katherine could bear more children?

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

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

5. What sours the Boleyns on Wolsey?

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

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

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

9. How do Clerke and Sumner die?

10. Why did Cromwell pick up a snake in Italy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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