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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 virtue is espoused in Fielding's work that should not be underestimated in "Thematic Meaning and Structure"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Peace.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Love.

2. Who has decided to write a book about the courtship of Booby and Shamela?
(a) Booby.
(b) Williams.
(c) Henrietta.
(d) Shamela.

3. In "Fielding's Guidance of the Reader's Attitudes in Book 1, Chapters 1-11," the narrator in "Joseph Andrews" is a _____ character.
(a) Kind.
(b) Complex.
(c) Loving.
(d) Forgiving.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joseph show when he is in the country especially when confronted with the obstacles to marrying Fanny?

2. As Fielding professes that the clergyman is a successor of ___________'s disciples, the essay on clergy concludes.

3. What does Parson Williams advise Shamela to deny regarding Henrietta?

4. In "Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane," who does Gil meet from Grenada?

5. When Jacky reads the history of Leonard and his wife who constantly quarrel, who assures them that each is right and the person who is right should always submit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is Adams similar to Don Quixote?

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

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

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

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

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

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