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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. When Fanny was stolen by gypsies, who was put in her place as a child to be raised by the Andrews?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Shamela.
(c) Adams.
(d) Henry.

2. In Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux's "Le Paysan parvenu ou les Memoirs de M***," who protects his honor from Genevieve?
(a) Henry.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Marks.
(d) Fielding.

3. Who writes "The Life and Adventures of the Renown'd Don Quixote"?
(a) Fielding.
(b) Cervantes.
(c) Quixote.
(d) Cicero.

4. In "Essay on Reputation," Fielding claims that it is hard to distinguish virtue and wisdom from _________.
(a) Joy and love.
(b) War and peace.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Folly and vice.

5. In what periodical is an article written that finds Mr. Adams makes an agreeable character due to his innocence?
(a) The Student.
(b) The Writer.
(c) The Author.
(d) The Priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pierre Francois Guyot Desfontaines think Fielding is one of the best at in England in terms of writing?

2. Whose attempt to seduce Destiny is stopped by the arrival of Ragotin?

3. When Wilson joyfully is reunited with Joseph, his son, who is agitated that Joseph can now marry Fanny?

4. What year is "Essay on Reputation" written?

5. When Lady Booby returns to London, what does she play to forget Joseph?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do many critics like Fielding's characterization of Adams?

2. Why is Pamela called Shamela by a clergyman?

3. Why does Mr. Booby go to ecclesiastical court?

4. In Sheldon Sacks's "Fielding's Guidance of the Reader's Attitudes in Book 1, Chapters 1-11," how is the narrator described?

5. How does the peddler assist Joseph in finding his true identity?

6. When Joseph rescues Fanny from the ill intentions of Beau Didapper, what does Lady Booby's presence at Adam's house reveal?

7. How is Le Roman Comique similar to Joseph Andrews?

8. In "Essay on Reputation," how does Fielding distinguish virtue and vice?

9. How is Pamela different from Shamela in her reaction to Mr. Booby?

10. Why is Pamela uncomfortable at the Lincolnshire estate where she is abducted?

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