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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. Of which of the following is Wolsey bishop?

2. Whom does Cromwell’s daughter intend to marry?

3. Of what make is the squirrel trim about which Mercy asks Cromwell?

4. On what count is Cromwell bitten by a snake?

5. How tall is the King in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do diplomats tend not to learn English in the novel?

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

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

4. Per the novel, how was legendary Britain founded?

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

6. What prompts Anne Boleyn to first summon Cromwell?

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

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

9. How does the novel define what praemunire is?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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