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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: pages 85-110.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does Mr. B offer for not wanting Pamela to go to work for Lady Davers?
(a) She will not be treated as well as at his house.
(b) She will not have as good a chance of becoming a lady.
(c) She will be seduced by older men in the neighborhood.
(d) She will be ruined by the nephew of Lady Danvers.

2. How does Mr. B make things worse with Pamela after his return?
(a) He beats her.
(b) He kisses and gropes her.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He attacks her.

3. What is Mr. B's first response to seeing Pamela writing to her parents?
(a) He praises her.
(b) He calls her childish and simple.
(c) He chastises her for neglecting his mother.
(d) He chastises her for neglecting the household duties.

4. How does Pamela react to the attempts of the ladies to see her at the dinner party?
(a) She hides in Mrs. Jervis' room.
(b) She wears a disguise.
(c) She hides in a closet.
(d) She goes out of the house.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pamela wish that Mr. B would give her money instead of nice clothes?

2. By the end of Section 1, it is evident that the author is making use of the epistolary style of writing. To what does this refer?

3. 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?

4. What relation is Lady Davers to Mr. B?

5. How does Lady Davers respond to Pamela when she visits?

(see the answer key)

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