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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 is the name of Wolsey’s fool?

2. What post had Wolsey held?

3. What stone is in the ring Wolsey gives Cromwell?

4. Who is the first to sign the articles against Wolsey?

5. What birds are on Wolsey’s arms?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what is Wolsey charged in court?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How had Cromwell met his wife?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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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