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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. Through what method does Fielding resolve most of the themes of "Joseph Andrews"?
(a) Questions.
(b) Change.
(c) Humor.
(d) Love.

2. What elements does the narrator in "Joseph Andrews" have according to "Fielding's Guidance of the Reader's Attitudes in Book 1, Chapters 1-11"?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Joyous.
(d) Burlesque.

3. In "Essay on Reputation," Fielding claims that it is hard to distinguish virtue and wisdom from _________.
(a) War and peace.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Folly and vice.
(d) Joy and love.

4. What shows Wilson has made foolish choices in vices represented as typical of London?
(a) Wilson's Tale.
(b) Marks' Tale.
(c) Jacob's Tale.
(d) Samuel's Tale.

5. 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) Fielding.
(c) Marks.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is "Essay on Reputation" written?

2. Who writes "The Life and Adventures of the Renown'd Don Quixote"?

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

4. Who writes a dedication to "The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero"?

5. What are Mr. Booby's intentions towards Shamela?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men," what does Fielding say about deceit?

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

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

7. How is Pamela different from Shamela in her reaction to Mr. Booby?

8. Why is Pamela uncomfortable at the Lincolnshire estate where she is abducted?

9. What does Thomas Gray say about Fielding's work?

10. How is Le Roman Comique similar to Joseph Andrews?

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