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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 long is Cromwell’s lease at Austin Friars?

2. What saint had Cromwell’s mother venerated?

3. To whom does Cromwell lend a handkerchief?

4. Where does the painter Hans rent a house?

5. Which of the following will take a position at the Mint?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What story does Cromwell tell about his time with Giovannino?

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

4. What questions does Jane Seymour voice about pregnancy?

5. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

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

7. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

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

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

10. For what is Thomas Hitton burned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than historical fiction might Wolf Hall be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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

Consider the comment that "insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before" (183). Does the novel bear out the comment? Does experience? How or how not?

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