View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following has the author of Wolf Hall won?

3. In what year does the comet come?

4. Who forged a letter from Mary Magdalene?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

4. How does Anne Boleyn recommend handling Mary Tudor?

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

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

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

8. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the comment “Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes. At an earlier stage in life this would have surprised [Thomas Cromwell]; he had thought that under their clothes people wore their skin” (83). What does Wolsey mean? What does Cromwell mean? What in the novel suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 555 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample