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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. To which of the following does More compare himself?

2. For what bird does Cromwell call to feed Wolsey?

3. Of which of the following is Wolsey bishop?

4. For what spice does Cromwell call after Wolsey’s dispossession?

5. Who had built the keep at Esher?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Anne Boleyn to first summon Cromwell?

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

3. What is Wolsey’s plan for monastic reform?

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

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

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

7. How does Cromwell put nobles into his debt?

8. How does Cromwell delay Wolsey’s dispossession?

9. How does Wolsey react to illness?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the comment “Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes. At an earlier stage in life this would have surprised [Thomas Cromwell]; he had thought that under their clothes people wore their skin” (83). What does Wolsey mean? What does Cromwell mean? What in the novel suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Wolf Hall? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What attitude towards legalism does the novel display? What in the novel indicates that attitude? How does it do so?

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