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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. Where is Frith taken to be interrogated?

2. What animal is on the head of Fisher’s cane?

3. Which of the following does Cromwell note can play a drum?

4. On what was Henry Wyatt forced to subsist in prison?

5. Who accompanies Cromwell to Bedfordshire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, many character share not only family names, which would be expected, but also given names. How does the repetition of names affect the reading?

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

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

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