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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 where does Cromwell’s Polish tutor come?

2. Who had built the keep at Esher?

3. From what saint do the Tudors claim descent?

4. From whom is the first epigraph taken?

5. Which of the following does Cromwell’s son enjoy reading?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How had Cromwell met his wife?

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

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

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

6. How does the novel define what praemunire is?

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

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

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

10. With what is Wolsey charged in court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Mantel’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Wolf Hall? By which groups? Why?

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