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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Thematic Meaning and Structure," what themes are discussed?
(a) Vanity and hypocrisy.
(b) Jealousy and apathy.
(c) Love and war.
(d) Fear and rage.

2. Whose negative view is exaggerated in "Fielding's Guidance of the Reader's Attitudes in Book 1, Chapters 1-11"?
(a) Shamela Jacobs.
(b) Angela Williams.
(c) Henry Fielding.
(d) Samuel Richardson.

3. In Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux's "Le Paysan parvenu ou les Memoirs de M***," who protects his honor from Genevieve?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Henry.
(c) Marks.
(d) Fielding.

4. Whose attempt to seduce Destiny is stopped by the arrival of Ragotin?
(a) Fielding.
(b) Roman.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Bouvillon.

5. In "The Apology for the Clergy," what does Fielding say is serviceable to detect and expose in the clergy?
(a) Lies.
(b) Speeches.
(c) Unworthy people.
(d) Exaggerations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is "The Apology for the Clergy" written?

2. In what year does George Cheyne write Samuel Richardson that Fielding's wretched performance will only entertain porters or watermen?

3. What does Don Quixote try to dissuade a squire from doing to a boy?

4. What fetters and harasses mankind according to Fielding in "Essay on Good Nature"?

5. What is written in the closing months of Sir Robert Walpole's ascendency as first commissioner of treasury?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the comparison in Marivaux's novel that is similar to Fielding's work?

2. In Sheldon Sacks's "Fielding's Guidance of the Reader's Attitudes in Book 1, Chapters 1-11," how is the narrator described?

3. How does the peddler assist Joseph in finding his true identity?

4. Why does Shamela plot to seduce Mr. Booby?

5. Why does Mr. Booby go to ecclesiastical court?

6. How is Adams similar to Don Quixote?

7. How do Adam and Lady Booby differ in their reaction to Joseph and Fanny's arrival after Joseph rescues Fanny?

8. In Martin C. Battlestin's "Thematic Meaning and Structure," what motifs are revealed?

9. Why do many critics like Fielding's characterization of Adams?

10. How is "Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane" similar to Fielding's work?

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