Shamela Quizzes

Shamela Quiz 1

1 Conny Keyber writes the
dedication

introductory letters

title page

main text
2 Who does Conny Keyber say influenced his writing the most?
Petrarch

Plato

Homer

Euclid
3 How many praising letter preface the text?
10

38

2

5
4 Parson Tickletext ________ the story of Pamela.
laments

praises

critiques

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

Everyone

Old men

Children
6 Parson Oliver finds the story of Pamela
confusing

charming

exciting

troubling
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 mother is an orange-seller

Pamela's parents were not married

Pamela never existed

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

drawings

poems

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

Henry Fielding

Edmund Spenser

Samuel Richardson
11 Shamela mostly writes her letters to
Mrs. Jervis

her mother

Parson Williams

Squire Booby
12 What is Shamela's relationship with Parson Williams?
Mentor and mentee

Cousins

Lovers

Friends
13 Mrs. Jervis is a/an
servant

poetess

church member

aristocrat
14 Shamela insinuates her mother was
a bad mother

unloving towards her

uneducated

sexually promiscuous
15 How does Shamela behave towards the Squire?
Coquettish

Indifferent

Rude

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

marry the Squire

have a child by the Squire

seduce the Squire
17 Shamela is wary of engaging with the Squire because
she does not love him

she is a virgin

she is scared of him

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

cried bitterly

screamed and swooned

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

to lose her position

the Squire to hire more servants

Shamela to marry the Squire
20 Shamela tried to trick the Squire by
telling him she is married

sneaking into his bed

pretending to quit

dressing up like a farmer's daughter
21 The Squire decides to send Shamela to
Coventry

Leicester

Bath

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

Mrs. Jewkes

Parson Williams

Henrietta
23 How does Henrietta feel about Shamela's behavior?
She is indifferent

She is jealous

She disapproves

She approves
24 Who is Mrs. Jewkes?
An aristocrat

A schoolteacher

A parson's wife

A servant
25 Parson Williams has what opinion of the Squire?
He does not know him at all and has no opinion

He does not like him, but needs him

He admires him greatly

He despises 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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