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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: pages 57-85.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the alternative title of the novel?
(a) Or Virtue Rewarded.
(b) Virtue Tested.
(c) Virtue Seduced.
(d) The Benefits of Virtue.

2. Why does Pamela wish that Mr. B would give her money instead of nice clothes?
(a) Because she is not interested in clothes
(b) Because she wants to save for the future.
(c) So she can go home.
(d) So she can send money for her parents.

3. How does Mr. B try to get rid of Pamela after the dinner party?
(a) He suggests that she should go into service at the home of Lady Danvers.
(b) He suggests that she should go to work at the church.
(c) He threatens to send her to a home for young women.
(d) He threatens to send her home.

4. What explanation does Mr. B offer for not wanting Pamela to go to work for Lady Davers?
(a) She will not be treated as well as at his house.
(b) She will not have as good a chance of becoming a lady.
(c) She will be seduced by older men in the neighborhood.
(d) She will be ruined by the nephew of Lady Danvers.

5. What incident that occurs in Section 2, does Mr. B ask Pamela to keep a secret?
(a) His threat to dismiss her.
(b) His promise to keep her on as a maid.
(c) His attempt to kiss her.
(d) The offer of employment by Lady Danvers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic of the society is made evident in Section 3 of the novel when Mr. B terminates the employment of servants?

2. What relation is Lady Davers to Mr. B?

3. How does Pamela react to the attempts of the ladies to see her at the dinner party?

4. In Section 3, of what does Mr. B accuse Pamela when he sees her dressed up at the dinner party?

5. What is Mr. B's first response to seeing Pamela writing to her parents?

(see the answer key)

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