A Man for All Seasons Test

Question 1

You, your pupils, your friends … (9)

Answer 1

Speaking: More
To: Rich
About: Becoming a teacher, rich doesn’t want to, wants successful political life, More likes quiet

Question 2

I believe you believe that…You’re a constant regret …(19)

Answer 2

Speaking: Wolsey
To: More
About: Overturning the dispensation and how More is too moralistic, he should be more realistic (ironic)

Question 3

A dispensation was granted…(21)

Answer 3

Speaking: More
To: Wolsey
About: More doesn’t want to dispensation turned over, but Wolsey feels he is being too moralistic about it

Question 4

Well…I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience…(22)

Answer 4

Speaking: More
To: Wolsey
About: More feels Wolsey isn’t doing to right thing, therefore it will lead to public chaos

Question 5

Because you are honest. What’s more to the purpose, you’re known to be honest…(55)

Answer 5

Speaking: Henry
To: More
About: He is more or less trying to get into the favor of More by complimenting him

Question 6

No opposition, I say! No opposition! Your conscience is your own affair; but you are my chancellor! (56)

Answer 6

Speaking: Henry
To: More
About: More is telling the King that he cannot agree to the divorce, therefore it makes the King Angry

Question 7

This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man’s laws, not God’s … (66)

Answer 7

Speaking: More
To: Roper
About: How man’s law is greater than God’s law because if you were to take it away you would be vulnerable, like cut down trees

Question 8

…whoever hunts for me […] will find me hiding in the thickets of the law! (67)

Answer 8

Speaking: More
To: Roper
About: He feels he can use man’s law for protection against him and his daughter

Question 9

No, it’s not like that, it’s much more a matter of convenience, administrative convenience (73)

Answer 9

Speaking: Cromwell
To: Rich
About: How it is their job to make it convenient to the King is he wants a divorce, even if More is in the way

Question 10

You enjoyed that! (77)

Answer 10

Speaking: Rich
To: Cromwell
About: How he thinks Cromwell enjoyed putting Rich’s wrist in a flame, as to demonstrate how far he will go

Question 11

We couldn’t come so deep into your confidence as to know these reasons why a man in poverty can’t take four thousand pounds? (110)

Answer 11

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Question 12

I recognize the style. So I am brought here at last (118)

Answer 12

Speaking: More
To: Cromwell
About: Cromwell just showed More the letter from the King saying he will be killed if he does not consent.

Question 13

And when we stand before God, and you are sent to Paradise … (132)

Answer 13

Speaking: More
To: Norfolk, Cromwell
About: How though they may have signed for the sake of the fellowship with clear consciences, however he cannot, so he is brought back to jail without books

Question 14

Your death’s no “good” to me (144).

Answer 14

Speaking: Alice
To: More
About: Alice claims she does not understand as to why he could not cave in to the king, which is more most torturous to More, as he knows he will die without her understanding.

Question 15

Because this silence betokened - nay, this silence was not silence at all but most eloquent denial (152).

Answer 15

Speaking: Cromwell
To: The audience
About: How More’ silence was an indication of his disapproval of the King’s divorce

Question 16

In good faith, Rich, I am sorrier for your perjury than my peril (156).

Answer 16

Speaking: More
To: Rich
About: Rich says that More denied the King’s title, and More swear upon oath that this was a lie.

Question 17

The King in Parliament cannot bestow the supremacy of the Church because it is a spiritual Supremacy (159).

Answer 17

Speaking: More
To: Norfolk
About: More does not feel that the King cannot control the spiritual life of the supremacy because it is separated

Question 18

Friend, be not afraid of your office. You send me to God (162).

Answer 18

Speaking: More
To: Cranmer
About: He doesn’t want him to feel bad about killing him because he knows he will go to God