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In "Tom Jones," who is the servant that accompanies Tom on his travels? |
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2.
The title character in Fielding's "Joseph Andrews" is purportedly the brother of whom?
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3.
Fielding's plays satirizing the Walpole administration in the 1730s are said to have resulted in what event?
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4.
In "Tom Jones," whom is Squire Western attacking when he complains to his sister about "Round-heads and Hanover rats"?
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5.
What actor gained a "best actor" Oscar nomination for his 1963 portrayal of Tom Jones?
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Which of Fielding's novels did John Cleland praise as a "bold experiment" because it focused not on courtship but on the relationship of a man and woman after marriage? |
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7.
Which of the following is best considered a theme of "Tom Jones"?
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8.
When Blifil frees the pet bird that Tom had given Sophia in "Tom Jones," Thwackum, Square, Western, and Allworthy all comment in characteristic fashion on Blifil's action. Match the characters to the comments below.
1) To confine anything seems to me against the law of nature.
2) The law of nature is a jargon of words...To do as we would be done by is indeed a Christian motive.
3) Pox of your laws of nature...Drink about!
4) [I] could not consent to punish [Blifil], as he acted rather from a generous than unworthy motive.
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Thwackum (1), Allworthy (2), Western (3), Square (4)
Thwackum (1), Square (2), Allworthy (3), Square (4)
Western (1), Allworthy (2), Thwackum (3), Square (4)
Square (1), Thwackum (2), Western (3), Allworthy (4)
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Name the character being described:
"He was ... a man of good sense, good parts, and good nature; but was at the same time as entirely ignorant of the ways of this world, as an infant just entered into it could possibly be."
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10.
Fielding's works express a moral and religious preference for which of the following venerable bodies?
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