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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 whom is the King compared?

2. In what month and year does Wolsey begin to investigate the King’s marriage to Katherine?

3. Which of the following does Cromwell cite as a great scholar?

4. On which of the following does Anne Boleyn have her arms embroidered?

5. In what year does Anne Boleyn first appear in court?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Cromwell send red meat to Wolsey during Lent?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Cromwell know less than a day has passed since his father beat him?

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

10. How does Wolsey react to illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Wolf Hall bear as much out?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Wolf Hall should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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