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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. From where does Cranmer write to Cromwell?

2. What saint had Cromwell’s mother venerated?

3. What is the name of the woman Cromwell sees burned for being a Lollard?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Cromwell concerned that Cristophe might be his son?

4. How does Anne Boleyn recommend handling Mary Tudor?

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

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

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

8. What is the typical English diplomatic stance in the novel?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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

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