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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. Under what sign was the world supposedly made?

3. Where did the King’s father meet Katherine?

4. What school does Cromwell’s son attend?

5. What is the name of Cromwell’s chief cook?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Wolsey jeered as he leaves after his dispossession?

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

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

6. Why does Cromwell insist on observing quarantine protocols despite his position?

7. How does Wolsey react to illness?

8. How does the novel define what praemunire is?

9. In the novel, what is an estoc?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Consider the comment that "insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before" (183). Does the novel bear out the comment? Does experience? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Cromwell ruminates on the idea that “There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented, or new things that pretend to be old” (112). Does the novel bear out the idea? Does experience? How or how not?

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