Shamela Quizzes

Shamela Quiz 1

1 Conny Keyber writes the
introductory letters

dedication

main text

title page
2 Who does Conny Keyber say influenced his writing the most?
Plato

Petrarch

Homer

Euclid
3 How many praising letter preface the text?
2

5

10

38
4 Parson Tickletext ________ the story of Pamela.
laments

critiques

praises

ignores
5 Who does Tickletext think should read "Pamela?"
Everyone

Children

Old men

Young women
6 Parson Oliver finds the story of Pamela
troubling

charming

exciting

confusing
7 Parson Oliver thinks Pamela's story is most dangerous for
old men

young women

children

young men
8 Oliver's corrections include all the following excerpt
Pamela's parents were not married

Pamela's mother is an orange-seller

Pamela never existed

Pamela's real name is Shamela
9 Oliver's documents mostly consist of
letters

court records

drawings

poems
10 Who is the author of "Pamela?"
Edmund Spenser

Samuel Richardson

Henry Fielding

Frances Burney
11 Shamela mostly writes her letters to
Mrs. Jervis

Squire Booby

her mother

Parson Williams
12 What is Shamela's relationship with Parson Williams?
Friends

Mentor and mentee

Cousins

Lovers
13 Mrs. Jervis is a/an
servant

poetess

church member

aristocrat
14 Shamela insinuates her mother was
sexually promiscuous

uneducated

a bad mother

unloving towards her
15 How does Shamela behave towards the Squire?
Rude

Indifferent

Coquettish

Admiring
16 Mrs. Jervis encourages Shamela to
leave the Squire alone

have a child by the Squire

marry the Squire

seduce the Squire
17 Shamela is wary of engaging with the Squire because
she does not want another child

she does not love him

she is scared of him

she is a virgin
18 When the Squire came into Shamela's bed, she
screamed and swooned

let him have his way with her

cried bitterly

attacked him
19 Mrs. Jervis does not want
Shamela to lose her virtue

Shamela to marry the Squire

to lose her position

the Squire to hire more servants
20 Shamela tried to trick the Squire by
telling him she is married

sneaking into his bed

dressing up like a farmer's daughter

pretending to quit
21 The Squire decides to send Shamela to
Lincolnshire

Coventry

Bath

Leicester
22 Mrs. Jervis writes to whom about Shamela's machinations?
The Squire

Parson Williams

Henrietta

Mrs. Jewkes
23 How does Henrietta feel about Shamela's behavior?
She is jealous

She approves

She disapproves

She is indifferent
24 Who is Mrs. Jewkes?
An aristocrat

A parson's wife

A servant

A schoolteacher
25 Parson Williams has what opinion of the Squire?
He despises him

He does not like him, but needs him

He admires him greatly

He does not know him at all and has no opinion

The book is narrated by an unnamed narrator in the third-person.

Asked by dheya t #1306025

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what kind of person is Reverend Williams?

Reverend Williams appears both in Pamela and Shamela but has a completely different personality. In Pamela, Reverend Williams truly loves Pamela and wants to marry her and have an honest relationship while in Shamela he is like Shamela, cunning...

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How did women identity identified in Shamela?

Shamela as a title is significant because this is a satire. Shamela, in contrast to the novel, Pamela, comes to mean shame or sham.... hypocrisy, false piety. Rather than the pure, innocent, and chaste heroine of Richardson's, Pamela, Fielding has...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 8/4/2017 12:49 PM

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Shamela

by Henry Fielding

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