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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 is the maximum number of sheep any one grazier will be allowed to run?

2. Which of the following does Berners translate?

3. What religious scholar’s work does Charles Brandon read to the King?

4. Where is the supposed prophet to be executed?

5. With what jurist does Cromwell confer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Kratzer lodge with Cromwell?

6. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Wolf Hall do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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