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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 ambassador from Venice?

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

3. Where is Elizabeth Tudor to be lodged?

4. What religious scholar’s work does Charles Brandon read to the King?

5. What instrument does Anne Boleyn’s musician play?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

2. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

3. Why does Cromwell appear to pity Mary Boleyn?

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

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

6. For what reason does Thomas Wyatt’s father account him brave?

7. Why does Kratzer lodge with Cromwell?

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

9. For what is Thomas Hitton burned?

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

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

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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