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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 had commissioned a knife from Cromwell’s father?

2. What book does Avery bring for Cromwell?

3. What is the name of Cranmer’s wife?

4. From whom does Cromwell borrow in support of Cranmer?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What prompts Rafe to disclose his marriage to Cromwell?

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

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

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

7. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

8. For what is Thomas Hitton burned?

9. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

Sources attest to the presence of Wolf Hall on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? 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

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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