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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. Who succeeds to the post of Governor of Calais?

2. What saint had Cromwell’s mother venerated?

3. With which of the following does the main text of the novel conclude?

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

5. With what jurist does Cromwell confer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the supposed prophet purport to see Wolsey’s soul?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

9. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitude towards legalism does the novel display? What in the novel indicates that attitude? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Wolf Hall? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Mantel’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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