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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. How tall is the King in the novel?

2. From which of the following does Cromwell borrow a change of clothes?

3. From whom is the second epigraph taken?

4. To whom had Anne Boleyn intended to be wed?

5. Whom does the King dispatch as a messenger to Wolsey?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the novel define what praemunire is?

5. How does Cromwell put nobles into his debt?

6. How does Wolsey react to illness?

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

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

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

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

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

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Wolf Hall do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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