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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: pages 160-189.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. B try to encourage Pamela to keep the incident a secret?
(a) He promises to give her a higher place in the household.
(b) He offers her money.
(c) He offers her a holiday.
(d) He offers her new clothes.

2. 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 threatens to send her home.
(c) He threatens to send her to a home for young women.
(d) He suggests that she should go to work at the church.

3. According to Pamela's father, how important is it for Pamela to maintain her virtue?
(a) He says virtue is more important than life.
(b) He says virtue is of great importance.
(c) He says virtue is important if she wants a good husband.
(d) He says her virtue is important to her future.

4. After failing to help Pamela escape, Mr. Williams writes to her introducing a different subject. What is the subject?
(a) He proposes a visit to the clergyman.
(b) He proposes marriage.
(c) He wants to take her out of Mr. B's reach.
(d) He proposes an appeal to Mr. B's sister, Lady Davers.

5. In what century was "Pamela" written?
(a) The seventeenth.
(b) The nineteenth.
(c) The sixteenth.
(d) The eighteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reference does Mr. B make to Mr. Williams in one of the articles contained in his proposition to Pamela?

2. In the preface to the novel, what phrase is used to describe the category to which it belongs?

3. After the dinner party when Mr. B disguises himself, what is Mr. B's response to Mrs. Jervis?

4. By the end of Section 1, Pamela is established as the main character pursuing a goal and Mr. B as the character who is presenting obstacles to her accomplishing her goal. Which of the following pair of words best describes these two roles?

5. In Section 7 after his failed proposition and his failed attempt to seduce Pamela, what concessions does Mr. B make to allow Pamela more freedom?

(see the answer key)

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