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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Pamela in relationship to Lady Booby?
(a) Her sister-in-law.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her daughter-in-law.
(d) Her friend.

2. Whose presence does Lady Booby frown upon, forcing her to leave with Adams after being taken out of jail?
(a) Fanny.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Fielding.
(d) Henry.

3. What kind of a priest does Adams converse with after escaping the squire's retinue?
(a) Episcopal.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Armenian.

4. Who refuses to give Joseph credit to pay his bill at the inn?
(a) Tow-house.
(b) Parsons.
(c) Shamela.
(d) Andrews.

5. What does Lady Booby try to terminate legally by using the Justice Fromick?
(a) Joseph's marriage.
(b) Scout's will.
(c) Fanny's pregnancy.
(d) Anne's friendship.

6. What does the hostess of the inn offer Adams because she thinks that he is Trulliber's brother?
(a) Credit.
(b) Books.
(c) Housing.
(d) Furniture.

7. What is stolen from Wilson by gypsies?
(a) A daughter.
(b) A house.
(c) A book.
(d) A son.

8. Whose carelessness allows the thief to escape in Chapter 16?
(a) The governor.
(b) The priest.
(c) The writer.
(d) The constable.

9. Who is the person that the eighteen-year-old whose story is told by a lady in the coach suddenly falls in love with prior to her wedding?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Shamela.
(c) Bellarmine.
(d) Parsons.

10. When Lady Booby returns home, the sight of ______ ignites her passion, causing her to argue with Mrs. SlipSlop.
(a) Joseph.
(b) Fanny.
(c) Peter.
(d) Adams.

11. What does Fielding believe that biographies copy instead of creating originals?
(a) History.
(b) People.
(c) Nature.
(d) Art.

12. In the Preface to "Joseph Andrews," Henry Fielding defines his terms and distinguishes his story from ________________.
(a) Dance and theater.
(b) Love and life.
(c) History and art.
(d) Romance and burlesque.

13. Whose Methodist doctrines do Adam and Barnabas discuss that invoke the ire of the clergy?
(a) George Whitefield.
(b) Maximus Aurelius.
(c) Joseph Andrews.
(d) Henry Fielding.

14. Who does Mrs. Tow-house catch her husband in bed with?
(a) Henry.
(b) Betty.
(c) Mary.
(d) Shamela.

15. Who is the eighteen-year-old whose story is told by a lady in the coach?
(a) Jan.
(b) Leonara.
(c) Angela.
(d) Jezebel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose stable does Joseph go to at the age of ten?

2. After his father's death, what does Wilson set out to become but fails at?

3. Where does Fielding find true comedy in his work?

4. When Joseph kisses the woman who came in search of him, how does Mrs. Slipslop respond?

5. Who is Peter Pounce?

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