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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon hearing the response of the gentry toward her plight, what does Pamela ask Mr. Williams to do to help her?
(a) To pray for her.
(b) To send her letters to her parents and pray for her.
(c) To send back her letters.
(d) To appeal to Mr. B on her behalf.

2. How does Pamela seek to contribute to collaborating with Mr. Williams to arrange her escape?
(a) She writes to Mr. B and points out that she will find her way home.
(b) She promises to meet Mr. Williams at an agreed location from which he will take her to her parents.
(c) She offers Mr. Williams half her money to procure a horse and carriage.
(d) She writes a letter to her father asking him to meet her.

3. What reason does Mr. B give for insisting that he must find Pamela a husband?
(a) She is too pretty to escape the designs of men.
(b) To provide her with security.
(c) To end his responsibility for her.
(d) To prevent her from having to work for him.

4. As Section 3 begins, what is the reaction of Mr. B's dinner party guests to the rumors about Pamela?
(a) They try to ridicule her for spreading rumors about Mr. B.
(b) They are anxious to see the young woman about whose beauty they have heard.
(c) They want to tease and embarrass her.
(d) They are anxious to see the simple servant about whom everyone is talking.

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

6. Following the dinner party incidents, what does Mr. B do to Pamela?
(a) He dismisses her.
(b) He threatens to dismiss her.
(c) He appears in his nightgown in Pamela's sleeping quarters.
(d) He chastises her for dressing up like a lady.

7. 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?
(a) Protagonist and villain.
(b) Protagonist and antagonist.
(c) Heroine and villain.
(d) Lead Roles.

8. In Section 4, when Pamela hears of the possibility of Mr. B visiting Lincolnshire, how does she try to end the problems between her and Mr. B?
(a) She asks Mr. Longman to speak to Mr. B.
(b) She asks a clergyman to warn Mr. B about approaching her.
(c) She writes him a letter begging him not to see her.
(d) She asks Mrs. Jewkes to tell him she wishes to be left alone.

9. How does Pamela respond to her parents' advice?
(a) She dismisses their advice.
(b) She promises to be careful.
(c) She agrees with their advice.
(d) She defends Mr. B against accusations.

10. 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 wants to take her out of Mr. B's reach.
(c) He proposes marriage.
(d) He proposes an appeal to Mr. B's sister, Lady Davers.

11. Faced with the realization that she is worried about Mr. B's condition, what concern does Pamela have about her response?
(a) She wonders why she cannot hate him.
(b) She fears that Mr. B will use this against her.
(c) She is annoyed with herself.
(d) She fears that she has feelings for him.

12. Pamela's worries about Mr. B's safety and about what he might have heard from Mrs. Jewkes about Pamela, suggest that she has mixed feelings about Mr. B even though he has been so brutal to her; which of the following literary devices is exemplified in this situation?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Irony.

13. In Section 4 when Mr. B writes to Mr. Andrews, what does Mr. B allege about the liberties he has taken with Pamela?
(a) He claims that Pamela is to blame for them.
(b) He claims that Pamela misunderstood his intentions.
(c) He denies that they were serious.
(d) He claims that they did not occur.

14. What advice do Pamela's parents send her in response to Mr. Williams' earlier suggestion to Pamela?
(a) They ask her to defer a decision on the matter.
(b) They suggest that she discuss it with Mr. B.
(c) They encourage her to accept his idea.
(d) They forbid her to follow his suggestion.

15. At the end of Section 5, in an effort to save her virtue, what does Pamela write Mr. B about?
(a) She writes telling him of her misery and begging him not to see her.
(b) She threatens to tell Lady Davers about her troubles.
(c) She threatens to inform the clergyman about her troubles.
(d) She writes telling him of her misery.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Pamela is supposedly on her way home from Mr. B's estate with the coachman, where does Mr. B arrange for them to make the first stop?

2. After Mr. Williams apologizes to Pamela for disclosing their plans, who writes to him about Mr. B's plans to visit?

3. What does Mr. B communicate to the farmer about Pamela?

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

5. In Section 3 of the novel when Mr. B agrees to let Pamela go home, what is Pamela's attitude toward Mr. B?

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