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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 what city does Cromwell posit the King may send his illegitimate son?

2. Whom of the following is arrested alongside Thomas Wyatt?

3. What instrument does Anne Boleyn’s musician play?

4. Where does Anne Boleyn’s coronation feast take place?

5. Who accompanies Cromwell to Bedfordshire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does More demur to go to dinner with Cromwell?

2. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

3. How does Cromwell recognize that Cranmer’s wife is pregnant?

4. Why is Cromwell urged not to help in the kitchen?

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

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

7. Why does Anne Boleyn posit that the Pope had refused Wolsey?

8. Why does Charles Brandon wed his son’s intended?

9. Why does Kratzer lodge with Cromwell?

10. How does Anne Boleyn recommend handling Mary Tudor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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