Shamela Quizzes

Shamela Quiz 1

1 Conny Keyber writes the
dedication

main text

title page

introductory letters
2 Who does Conny Keyber say influenced his writing the most?
Euclid

Petrarch

Homer

Plato
3 How many praising letter preface the text?
5

38

2

10
4 Parson Tickletext ________ the story of Pamela.
praises

critiques

ignores

laments
5 Who does Tickletext think should read "Pamela?"
Young women

Everyone

Old men

Children
6 Parson Oliver finds the story of Pamela
troubling

confusing

exciting

charming
7 Parson Oliver thinks Pamela's story is most dangerous for
young men

children

old men

young women
8 Oliver's corrections include all the following excerpt
Pamela's real name is Shamela

Pamela's parents were not married

Pamela's mother is an orange-seller

Pamela never existed
9 Oliver's documents mostly consist of
drawings

court records

poems

letters
10 Who is the author of "Pamela?"
Frances Burney

Samuel Richardson

Henry Fielding

Edmund Spenser
11 Shamela mostly writes her letters to
her mother

Squire Booby

Parson Williams

Mrs. Jervis
12 What is Shamela's relationship with Parson Williams?
Lovers

Cousins

Mentor and mentee

Friends
13 Mrs. Jervis is a/an
servant

church member

aristocrat

poetess
14 Shamela insinuates her mother was
sexually promiscuous

uneducated

a bad mother

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

Indifferent

Coquettish

Rude
16 Mrs. Jervis encourages Shamela to
have a child by the Squire

seduce the Squire

leave the Squire alone

marry the Squire
17 Shamela is wary of engaging with the Squire because
she is a virgin

she is scared of him

she does not want another child

she does not love him
18 When the Squire came into Shamela's bed, she
let him have his way with her

screamed and swooned

cried bitterly

attacked him
19 Mrs. Jervis does not want
the Squire to hire more servants

to lose her position

Shamela to marry the Squire

Shamela to lose her virtue
20 Shamela tried to trick the Squire by
pretending to quit

dressing up like a farmer's daughter

sneaking into his bed

telling him she is married
21 The Squire decides to send Shamela to
Bath

Lincolnshire

Leicester

Coventry
22 Mrs. Jervis writes to whom about Shamela's machinations?
Parson Williams

Henrietta

The Squire

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

She disapproves

She is indifferent

She approves
24 Who is Mrs. Jewkes?
A servant

A parson's wife

An aristocrat

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

He does not know him at all and has no opinion

He admires him greatly

He does not like him, but needs him

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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Shamela

by Henry Fielding

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