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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. Where is Elizabeth Tudor to be lodged?

2. What does Cromwell gift to Anne Boleyn?

3. In what year does the comet come?

4. From where does Cranmer write to Cromwell?

5. How old does Katherine claim to be to Cromwell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

2. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

3. What recommendation does Cromwell make to More after the latter’s discommendation?

4. For what reason does Thomas Wyatt’s father account him brave?

5. Why does Jane Rochford offer to an alliance with Cromwell?

6. Why does Cromwell hate More’s refusal to either swear the oath regarding succession or outright deny it?

7. What prompts Rafe to disclose his marriage to Cromwell?

8. Why does Anne Boleyn want More included in a bill of attainder, despite a lack of evidence?

9. What do astrologers posit about Cromwell’s birth?

10. What rumors are spread about Elizabeth Tudor at her birth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Conversely, many character share not only family names, which would be expected, but also given names. How does the repetition of names affect the reading?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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