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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 name of the Emperor’s ambassador?

2. Of what material is More’s jerkin made?

3. What establishment does Cromwell’s sister and her husband operate?

4. Who tells Cromwell of his wife’s death?

5. For which port does Cromwell make when first leaving his hometown?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what is Wolsey charged in court?

2. How does the novel define what praemunire is?

3. In the novel, what prompts the King to seek a new wife?

4. What advice would Cromwell offer himself for Christmas, were he likely to take it?

5. Why did Cromwell pick up a snake in Italy?

6. Why do diplomats tend not to learn English in the novel?

7. Why does Cromwell’s son complain of his greyhounds?

8. How does Cromwell know less than a day has passed since his father beat him?

9. Why is Wolsey jeered as he leaves after his dispossession?

10. What sours the Boleyns on Wolsey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Explicate Cromwell’s rumination: “When daylight came, the room felt so empty it was empty even of him” (142).

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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