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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. In what month and year does the King announce to Katherine his intention to set her aside?

2. With whom had Cromwell had a liaison?

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

4. Against which pub does Cromwell warn Rafe?

5. What order’s habit does Katherine wear?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What would the King’s role have been had his elder brother not died?

3. What prompts Anne Boleyn to first summon Cromwell?

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

5. What advice would Cromwell offer himself for Christmas, were he likely to take it?

6. How does Cromwell put nobles into his debt?

7. How does the King expect people to respond to his generosity?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the narrative perspective of the novel. What effect does it have on the content? How is that effect created? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate Cromwell’s rumination: “When daylight came, the room felt so empty it was empty even of him” (142).

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