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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 More’s fool?

2. To whom had Anne Boleyn been in service?

3. Who is the first to sign the articles against Wolsey?

4. What dish served by Bonvisi does Cromwell commend?

5. From whom is the first epigraph taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cromwell send red meat to Wolsey during Lent?

2. Per the novel, how was legendary Britain founded?

3. Why does Cromwell disclaim particular skill with the longbow?

4. In what trade is Cromwell’s wife employed?

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

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

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

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

9. How do Clerke and Sumner die?

10. How does the Bishop of London treat Lutherans in the novel?

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

What attitude towards legalism does the novel display? What in the novel indicates that attitude? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Mantel’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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