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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. Which of the following does Thomas Wyatt bring to Cromwell’s home?

2. Who had commissioned a knife from Cromwell’s father?

3. To which of the following is Mary Tudor to be sent?

4. What is the name of the supposed Cornish giant?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

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. What questions does Jane Seymour voice about pregnancy?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Explicate Cromwell’s rumination: “When daylight came, the room felt so empty it was empty even of him” (142).

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