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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 title is conferred on the father of Anne Boleyn?

2. What birds are on Wolsey’s arms?

3. For which port does Cromwell make when first leaving his hometown?

4. Which of the following had Cromwell called “a doghole”?

5. With whose daughter does the King have a son?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What sours the Boleyns on Wolsey?

3. In the novel, what is an estoc?

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

5. How does the novel define what praemunire is?

6. How does Cromwell put nobles into his debt?

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

8. How had Cromwell met his wife?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Wolf Hall? By which groups? Why?

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