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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. After failing to help Pamela escape, Mr. Williams writes to her introducing a different subject. What is the subject?
2. How does Mr. B deal with the incident in which Pamela runs to her room and lies on the floor?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. According to Pamela's father, how important is it for Pamela to maintain her virtue?
Short Essay Questions
1. What complications does Mr. B design in order to keep Pamela under his control after she leaves his estate?
2. How do the circumstances of Pamela's life cause her to adopt one of the flaws in Mr. B's character?
3. What important aspects of the plot are revealed through Pamela's first letter to her parents?
4. What role does Mrs. Jervis play in the beginning of the story?
5. In Section 3 of the novel, how does Mr. B's increasing interference with Pamela reveal aspects of his character and create tension?
6. After Pamela rejects Mr. B's proposal for her to become his mistress, to what lengths does he go to have his way with her?
7. In Section 5, what role does Mr. Williams play in regard to Pamela's situation at Lincolnshire?
8. 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?
9. How is Mr. Williams' role in helping Pamela to escape brought to an end in Section 6?
10. What character traits of Mrs. Jewkes are revealed in Section 5 as she acts as Mr. B's ally?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a character sketch of Mr. B presenting reasons for your portrayal and commenting on the impact of his behavior on the reader at different stages of the plot.
Essay Topic 2
In adapting plays and novels for screen, producers and directors often make significant changes to the themes, characters and plot lines of the original. Having studied this novel in detail, evaluate the assertion that the themes, characters and plot lines of "Pamela" would have to be significantly modified to be a successful production for modern screen.
Essay Topic 3
The novel is essentially a story about the theme of resisting the advances of a wealthy master. Explain the characteristics of the society in which the novel is set, makes this story line a viable one and comment on whether it would be equally viable in the modern world.
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