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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 which of the following does Cromwell compare the King?

2. On whom does the King lean drunkenly?

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

4. Whom does Cromwell summon to assist Cranmer’s wife?

5. Where is Frith taken to be interrogated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

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

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

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

10. What questions does Jane Seymour voice about pregnancy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cromwell ruminates on the idea that “There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented, or new things that pretend to be old” (112). Does the novel bear out the idea? Does experience? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Wolf Hall? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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