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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: pages 85-110.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lady Davers respond to Pamela when she visits?
(a) She warns her against trying to seduce Mr. B.
(b) She describes her as incompetent to continue working.
(c) She praises her and speaks of hiring her.
(d) She mocks her simplicity.

2. What does Mr. B communicate to the farmer about Pamela?
(a) That she needs to be kept there until Mr. B can join her.
(b) That he means to save her from a dangerous love affair.
(c) That she must be kept there until her father comes for her.
(d) That she will be met there by Mrs. Jewkes who will go with her to Bedfordshire.

3. In the preface to the novel, what phrase is used to describe the category to which it belongs?
(a) Novel of manners.
(b) Romance.
(c) Picaresque.
(d) Coming of age.

4. What relation is Lady Davers to Mr. B?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His sister-in-law.
(d) His sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Section 2, when Mr. B wants to give Pamela the gift of clothes, how does he try to gain her trust?

2. What attitude does Mr. B show towards Pamela's virtue in Section 3 as she prepares to go home?

3. After Mr. B decides to send Pamela home, what excuse does he use to delay her departure?

4. In the same letter, what other allegations does Mr. B make about Pamela?

5. In Section 2, after Mr. B returns from a two week absence, of what does he accuse Pamela?

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