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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. What instrument does Anne Boleyn’s musician play?

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

3. Who is Cromwell’s agent in Antwerp?

4. What is the name of the supposed prophet?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

8. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

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

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

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?

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