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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where do Peter, Fanny, Joseph, and Adams leave to go after they are reunited at the inn?
2. How many weeks before her wedding does the eighteen-year-old whose story is told by a lady in the coach suddenly change her mind and fall in love with someone else?
3. What is stolen from Wilson by gypsies?
4. Who is Pamela in relationship to Lady Booby?
5. Why is Lady Booby indignant with Mrs. Slipslop's encouragement to marry Joseph?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Adams and the sportsman differ in their reaction to the screams of the young woman?
2. How does Fielding contrast biographies and romances?
3. Why is the inn hostess initially helpful to Adam?
4. How is Trulliber revealed as a greedy clergyman?
5. Why is Lady Booby jealous of Fanny?
6. What is the significance of Leonora's tale?
7. Why is Pounce considered selfish by Adams despite rescuing Fanny?
8. What is the theme that Fielding illustrates through the argument in the alehouse and Mrs. Slipslop's arrival?
9. What is the major theme of Fielding's book?
10. What does Joseph's encounter with the stagecoach reveal?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Money has particular significance in the Joseph Andrews; with Shamela; and Related Writings. What is the significance of having money in the story? Who chases after money? Who has money? Who loses money? Who gains money? What does Fielding ultimately say about money through Joseph and the priests and what is the importance of this discovery and theses characters' roles?
Essay Topic 2
Describe some of the settings for Joseph Andrews; with Shamela; and Related Writings. What is the overall setting? Be sure to include geography, time period, and any pertinent popular culture events. How do these settings, even if imaginary, reflect modern settings or culture? Why did the author choose to use these places in the tales?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the concept of loneliness as exhibited in Joseph Andrews; with Shamela; and Related Writings. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.
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