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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 3 of the novel when Mr. B agrees to let Pamela go home, what is Pamela's attitude toward Mr. B?
(a) She wishes him well for his mother's sake.
(b) She is determined to take revenge.
(c) She has mixed feelings about him.
(d) She hates him.

2. What does Pamela learn through a letter from Mr. Williams about the gentry and their attitude toward her situation?
(a) They regret her situation but are unwilling to anger Mr. B by helping her.
(b) They consider her an outsider.
(c) They are willing to help her.
(d) They are sorry for her.

3. What event leads Pamela to plot her own escape?
(a) Mr. B forbids Mr. Williams to help her.
(b) The death of Mr. Williams' colleague.
(c) Mr. Williams no longer wants to help her.
(d) Mr. Andrews asks Mr. Williams to stay out of the situation.

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

5. In Section 6, after the news of Mr. B's planned visit to Lincolnshire, Mrs. Jewkes frightens Pamela with information about a new scheme that Mr. B is supposedly planning. What is this scheme?
(a) He plans to give up all responsibility for her.
(b) He plans to marry Pamela to Mr. Colbrand and buy her on her wedding day.
(c) He plans to send her to Lady Davers.
(d) He plans to send her to Kent to work for his friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. B first offer Pamela in fulfillment of his mother's wishes?

2. What aspect of Mr. B's character is displayed when he contacts the farmer to explain why Mr. B has sent Pamela there?

3. In what century was "Pamela" written?

4. After Mr. B ignores Pamela for some time during his visit to Lincolnshire, what surprising turn of events occurs?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mr. B manipulate other characters to achieve what he wants from Pamela?

2. In Section 3 of the novel when Mr. B intensifies his advances toward Pamela in an incident that involves Mrs. Jervis, what significant outcome results?

3. How does Section 6 highlight the intensity of Pamela's struggle to save her virtue?

4. In Section 3 of the novel, how does Mr. B's increasing interference with Pamela reveal aspects of his character and create tension?

5. How does Pamela deal with the approaches made by Mr B and what is the result?

6. What complications does Mr. B design in order to keep Pamela under his control after she leaves his estate?

7. How does the tension between Mr B and Pamela escalate as Section 4 of the novel is completed?

8. In Section 7, when Mr. B finally summons Pamela, what surprising development takes place?

9. What is the significance of the dinner party about which Pamela writes her parents?

10. What are the early indications that Mr. B is making inappropriate approaches to Pamela?

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