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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. What happens to the person from Grenada that Gil is unsure of how to help him recover from?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Apoplexy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Diarrhea.

2. Who is the villain and housekeeper of Mr. B's property that Pamela is abducted to in "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"?
(a) Gross.
(b) Jezebel.
(c) Fielding.
(d) Jewkes.

3. Where is Pamela abducted in "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"?
(a) An estate.
(b) A manor.
(c) An inn.
(d) A cellar.

4. Who does Don Quixote defeat in a fight and sends the man to present himself to Lady Donna Dulcinea?
(a) A Biscayan.
(b) A Tuscan.
(c) A Catalan.
(d) A Frenchman.

5. What is written in the closing months of Sir Robert Walpole's ascendency as first commissioner of treasury?
(a) Parson Williams.
(b) Henry Fielding.
(c) Joseph Andrews.
(d) John Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Fielding leave "The Champion" because he is disenchanted with the opposition?

2. "Joseph Andrews" presents the moral problems of the assault against and the preservation of _______.

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

4. What does Mr. Booby do to Shamela in Letter 2 until Jervis stops him?

5. What does Elizabeth Carter find to be a variety of nature, wit, morality, and good sense that is written by Fielding?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Dick Taylor Jr.'s "Joseph as Hero in 'Joseph Andrews,'" how is Joseph characterized?

3. Why is Shamela willing to hide her relationship from her mother at Williams's request?

4. When Joseph rescues Fanny from the ill intentions of Beau Didapper, what does Lady Booby's presence at Adam's house reveal?

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

6. How do Adams and Joseph reveal the essential virtues of the good man?

7. What is the significance of the night adventures at Booby Hall according to Mark Spilka's "Comic Resolution in Fielding's 'Joseph Andrews'"?

8. What does Wilson's choices in London reveal about his character?

9. What is shocking about the peddler's revelation about Fanny's heritage?

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

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