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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. How long is Cromwell’s lease at Austin Friars?

2. What is the name of the supposed prophet?

3. What saint had Cromwell’s mother venerated?

4. Which of the following does Thomas Wyatt bring to Cromwell’s home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anne Boleyn recommend handling Mary Tudor?

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

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

4. What prompts Rafe to disclose his marriage to Cromwell?

5. Why does Charles Brandon wed his son’s intended?

6. Why is Bainham set to be executed?

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

8. What is the typical English diplomatic stance in the novel?

9. Why is Reginald Pole a danger?

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

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

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?

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