At the beginning of a novel by this author, the protagonist’s abusive father Walter kicks him in the head and then tells him to get up. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who depicted characters like Jane Seymour and Stephen Gardiner in a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell’s upbringing, which includes Bring Up the Bodies.
ANSWER: Hilary Mantel [or Hilary Mary Mantel]
[10e] At the end of Wolf Hall, this character marries Anne Boleyn, who he beheads at the end of Bring Up the Bodies. This real-life English ruler had six wives.
ANSWER: King Henry VIII [prompt on King Henry]
[10m] In another Mantel novel, an IRA member pretending to be a boiler man successfully performs this action. Frederick Forsyth’s novel The Day of the Jackal opens with one of these actions by an OAS member.
ANSWER: political assassination [accept The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher; accept the assassination of Charles De Gaulle; accept killing or murdering the Prime Minister of France or the UK; prompt on murder or crime or killing]
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