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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. To which of the following does Cromwell compare the King?

2. Which of the following had the supposed prophet visited?

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

4. Who had held Hatfield?

5. On what day does Cromwell deliver a pardon to Lady Exeter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What questions does Jane Seymour voice about pregnancy?

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

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

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

9. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

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

Consider the narrative perspective of the novel. What effect does it have on the content? How is that effect created? How do you know?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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