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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12: pages 301-344.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mr. B asks Pamela to make the final decision concerning the day for their marriage, what influences her to choose the day that she chooses?
(a) She chooses Friday because of Mr. B's birthday.
(b) She chooses Tuesday because her parents were married on that day.
(c) Her birthday and her parents' anniversary were on Thursday.
(d) She chooses Wednesday because of her birthday.

2. At the end of Section 2, what is the reaction of the other servants to Pamela's departure from Mr. B's estate?
(a) They are indifferent.
(b) They curse her for giving Mr. B a bad name.
(c) They mourn at her departure.
(d) They are happy to see her go.

3. When Pamela stops at an inn on her way to her parents' home, she receives a letter from Mr. B. What important information does this letter contain?
(a) That he can no longer be in contact with her.
(b) That he needs time to sort out his feelings.
(c) That he does not understand why his feelings for her are so complicated.
(d) That he has read Pamela's journal and is touched by her concern when he nearly drowned despite the hardships he has put her through.

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

5. 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?
(a) By making Mrs. Jervis go with him.
(b) By making sure that the other servants receive gifts also.
(c) By having Lady Danvers join him.
(d) By making Mrs. Jervis give her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice do Pamela's parents send her in response to Mr. Williams' earlier suggestion to Pamela?

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

3. What event results in Pamela's first letter to her parents?

4. In her desperation to escape from Lincolnshire, Pamela contemplates suicide but she later decides against it; why?

5. What reason does Mr. B give for insisting that he must find Pamela a husband?

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