Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Study questions

Joseph Andrews

Facts about Henry Fielding

➾ He died aged only 43, having helped set up London’s first effective professional police force, the Bow Street Runners.

➾ His early career, before 1734, was described as anything but regular, respectable, or even sober.

➾ His father, a successful General, was an improvident rakehell and compulsive gambler who once lost the equivalent of £15,000 at one sitting.

➾ His father provoked a bitter family quarrel by remarrying an impoverished Roman Catholic Italian widow who owned a London eating-house.

➾ He was sent to Eton, where he was often flogged, which a contemporary poet called “barbaric”.

➾ At the age of 19, he attempted to improve his prospects by eloping with a willing heiress.

➾ It is said he often wrote his hurried, slapdash plays on tobacco wrappers after late nights of drinking.

➾ His political satire on Prime Minister Walpole directly led to the institution of theatrical censorship by the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1737.

➾ He qualified for the bar in less than three years, half the usual time, by “superhuman efforts” while simultaneously editing a periodical.

➾ After his beloved wife Charlotte died, his grief “approached to frenzy,” and two years later he married her devoted maidservant and nurse, Mary Daniel.

➾ He took his voyage to Lisbon for severe gout and dropsy, using the agonising rigours of the trip as material for his last book, published posthumously.

Henry Fielding MCQs

1. When was Henry Fielding born?

A) October 8, 1754
B) April 22, 1707
C) April 22, 1734
D) August 7, 1754

B) April 22, 1707

2. In which location was Henry Fielding born?

A) Dorset
B) London
C) Lisbon, Portugal
D) Sharpham Park, Somerset

D) Sharpham Park, Somerset

3. When did Henry Fielding die?

A) 1754, aged 43
B) 1749, aged 42
C) 1751, aged 44
D) 1744, aged 37

A) 1754, aged 43

4. Where did Henry Fielding die?

A) London
B) East Stour, Dorset
C) Lisbon, Portugal
D) Westminster

C) Lisbon, Portugal

5. What was the primary illness that led Fielding to seek a warmer climate shortly before his death?

A) Asthma and fever
B) Gout which turned to dropsy
C) Mental anguish
D) Consumption

B) Gout which turned to dropsy

6. What was Henry Fielding’s age when he died?

A) 43
B) 50
C) 67
D) 39

A) 43

7. Henry Fielding’s father, Colonel Edmund Fielding, later became a:

A) Magistrate
B) General
C) Judge
D) Journalist

B) General

8. Which famous school did Fielding attend, where he became “uncommonly versed in the classics”?

A) Oxford
B) Winchester
C) Eton
D) Leiden

C) Eton

9. After leaving Eton, which university did Fielding attend for 18 months to resume his classical studies?

A) Cambridge
B) Oxford
C) University of Leiden in Holland
D) The Inner Temple

C) University of Leiden in Holland

10. What forced Fielding to return home from Leiden after 18 months?

A) He completed his degree quickly.
B) His father could no longer pay his allowance.
C) He was involved in an abortive elopement.
D) The Licensing Act was passed.

B) His father could no longer pay his allowance.

11. Who was Henry Fielding’s first wife, whom he married in 1734?

A) Mary Daniel
B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
C) Charlotte Cradock
D) Mrs. Tow-wouse

C) Charlotte Cradock

12. The character Sophia Western in Tom Jones is based on Fielding’s wife, Charlotte, in what stage of her life?

A) As a devoted maidservant.
B) As a much-troubled, hard-working wife.
C) As a high-spirited, generous-minded girl.
D) As a magistrate’s wife.

C) As a high-spirited, generous-minded girl.

13. Who was Mary Daniel, whom Fielding married in 1747, two years after his first wife’s death?

A) A distant cousin
B) A wealthy heiress
C) His wife’s devoted maidservant and nurse
D) A fellow writer

C) His wife’s devoted maidservant and nurse

14. Who was the blind half brother who worked alongside Henry Fielding as a Justice and helped set up the Bow Street Runners?

A) Ralph Allen
B) Sir Robert Walpole
C) John Fielding
D) George Lyttelton

C) John Fielding

15. What type of writer did Fielding become immediately upon returning from Leiden, stating he had “no choice but to be a hackney-writer or a hackney-coachman”?

A) Playwright
B) Novelist
C) Barrister
D) Satirist for hire

A) Playwright

16. Approximately how many plays did Fielding write during his early career?

A) 50
B) Some 25
C) 6
D) 100

B) Some 25

17. Which political figure did Fielding “mercilessly ridicule” in his 1737 play Historical Register, For the Year 1736?

A) John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
B) Prince Charles Edward
C) Sir Robert Walpole
D) Mr. Allworthy

C) Sir Robert Walpole

18. What event marked the end of Fielding’s career as a playwright in 1737?

A) His move to Lisbon.
B) The passing of the Licensing Act.
C) His wife’s death.
D) His call to the bar.

B) The passing of the Licensing Act.

19. After his playwriting career ended, what profession did Fielding pursue, studying for the bar in less than half the usual time?

A) Doctor
B) Soldier
C) Lawyer/Barrister
D) Merchant

C) Lawyer/Barrister

20. Which journalistic periodical did Fielding edit and largely write between 1739 and 1741 while studying law?

A) The True Patriot
B) The Covent Garden Journal
C) The Jacobite’s Journal
D) The Champion; or, British Mercury

D) The Champion; or, British Mercury

21. What governmental position was Fielding appointed to in 1748, which finally gave him some security?

A) Member of Parliament
B) Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex
C) Lord Chamberlain
D) Sheriff of London

B) Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex

22. As a magistrate, Fielding was known for being:

A) Corrupt and self-serving
B) Stern but just and quite incorruptible
C) Indifferent to crime
D) Overly lenient

B) Stern but just and quite incorruptible

23. Which small body of able and energetic “thieftakers” did Fielding strengthen while working at Bow Street?

A) The Watchmen
B) The City Guards
C) The Bow Street Runners
D) The Yeoman Warders

C) The Bow Street Runners

24. Fielding’s Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers was instrumental in helping to set up which organisation?

A) The Anglican Church
B) The Licensing office
C) The Bow Street Runners
D) The London theatre circuit

C) The Bow Street Runners

25. With which author is Henry Fielding considered a founder of the English novel?

A) Alexander Pope
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Samuel Richardson
D) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

C) Samuel Richardson

26. Which of Fielding’s early plays “guys the absurd tragedies of his day with point and immense gusto”?

A) The Historical Register
B) Rape upon Rape
C) Tom Thumb
D) Amelia

C) Tom Thumb

27. Fielding’s first major novel, published anonymously in 1742, was:

A) Amelia
B) Tom Jones
C) Joseph Andrews
D) Shamela

C) Joseph Andrews

28. Which of Samuel Richardson’s novels did An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741) parody?

A) Clarissa
B) Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
C) Sir Charles Grandison
D) Amelia

B) Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded

29. Fielding described Joseph Andrews in its preface as writing in “Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes,” and inaugurating which genre?

A) The Gothic romance
B) A comic Epic-Poem in Prose
C) Sentimental fiction
D) The picaresque tale

B) A comic Epic-Poem in Prose

30. Which famous comic figure, described as a “positively good man” made somewhat ridiculous, is central to Joseph Andrews?

A) Joseph Andrews
B) Peter Pounce
C) Parson Adams
D) Mr. Allworthy

C) Parson Adams

31. Which work was published in 1743 as part of the Miscellanies and satirized human greatness by focusing on a notorious criminal?

A) An Essay on Man
B) Jonathan Wild the Great
C) The Author’s Farce
D) Amelia

B) Jonathan Wild the Great

32. Fielding’s six-volume “masterpiece,” published in 1749, was:

A) Joseph Andrews
B) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
C) Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
D) Miscellanies

B) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

33. How did Tom Jones structure its plot?

A) A political allegory.
B) A romance plot where the hero’s identity is initially unknown.
C) A series of unconnected satirical sketches.
D) A tragic drama in six parts.

B) A romance plot where the hero’s identity is initially unknown.

34. Which novel was published in 1751 and was noted for being a “more serious work” and anticipating the Victorian domestic novel?

A) Tom Jones
B) Joseph Andrews
C) Jonathan Wild
D) Amelia

D) Amelia

35. How much money did Fielding earn from his last novel, Amelia?

A) £185
B) £500
C) £880
D) £700

C) £880

36. What was Henry Fielding’s final book, published posthumously, which recorded the difficult journey he undertook for his health?

A) Tom Jones
B) Amelia
C) Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
D) The True Patriot

C) Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

37. Which of Fielding’s novels has been called one of the dozen or so greatest novels in the English language?

A) Joseph Andrews
B) Jonathan Wild
C) Amelia
D) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

D) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

38. Which work demonstrated Fielding’s “mordant humour” and “keen eye for the passing scene” even as he suffered physical anguish?

A) The Jacobite’s Journal
B) Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
C) Rape upon Rape
D) The Champion

B) Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

39. The name given to Joseph Andrews’ virtuous footman brother, whose resistance to seduction starts the novel Joseph Andrews, is based on which character?

A) Amelia
B) Sophia Western
C) Pamela
D) Parson Adams

C) Pamela

40. Which friend and philanthropist, who later appears as Mr. Allworthy in Tom Jones, rescued Fielding from financial trouble during the writing of Joseph Andrews?

A) Sir Henry Gould
B) John Fielding
C) Ralph Allen
D) George Lyttelton

C) Ralph Allen

41. From what sources did Fielding derive his belief in “resilience” and “stoicism in the face of pain and injustice”?

A) His legal training and journalism.
B) His study of the Greek philosophers and harsh upbringing.
C) His experience as a magistrate.
D) His relationships with his wives.

B) His study of the Greek philosophers and harsh upbringing.

42. What major theme in Joseph Andrews is highlighted by the story of the girl seen as innocent but also previously seen behaving obscenely?

A) The importance of social rank.
B) The yawning gulf between things as they are and as they ought to be.
C) The necessity of legal reform.
D) The beauty of rural life.

B) The yawning gulf between things as they are and as they ought to be.

43. According to Fielding’s view on human nature, where does the true nature of an individual derive?

A) From what they say or how they appear.
B) Only from their actions.
C) From their wealth and social class.
D) From Divine intervention.

B) Only from their actions.

44. Fielding was a convinced and active Christian, belonging to the Anglican party which took the pragmatic view that Man was capable of helping himself without:

A) Charity
B) Good works
C) Divine intervention at every turn
D) Intellectual strength

C) Divine intervention at every turn

45. Which theological position did Fielding “profoundly distrust”?

A) Practical charity
B) Salvation by grace alone
C) The primacy of hope
D) The existence of sin

B) Salvation by grace alone

46. Citing 1 Corinthians 13, Fielding asserts that which quality is the “acid test of a man’s belief”?

A) Faith
B) Hope
C) Reason
D) Charity (Love or Loving Kindness)

D) Charity (Love or Loving Kindness)

47. Parson Adams contends that a virtuous Turk is more acceptable to his Creator than a wicked Christian, illustrating Fielding’s emphasis on:

A) Ritual observance.
B) Virtue and goodness over mere doctrine.
C) Predestination.
D) The need for sophistry.

B) Virtue and goodness over mere doctrine.

48. Fielding could not accept the “facile optimism” of writers like Pope, who claimed:

A) Charity should begin at home.
B) Whatever is, is right.
C) Man is essentially good.
D) The law is just.

B) Whatever is, is right.

49. Based on his experience as a magistrate, Fielding was aware of a world that, borrowing a phrase from Dr. Johnson, was “bursting with”:

A) Prosperity and opportunity.
B) Sin and misery.
C) Good humour and wit.
D) Learning and wisdom.

B) Sin and misery.

50. Fielding saw no cause to abandon common sense, and believed that which faculty was distrusted if deployed without belief?

A) Humour
B) Wisdom
C) Reason
D) Compassion

C) Reason

Joseph Andrews MCQs

1. What is the name of Joseph Andrews’s illustrious sister?

A. Mrs Slipslop
B. Mrs Wilson
C. Mrs Pamela Andrews
D. Lady Booby

C. Mrs. Pamela Andrews.
Joseph Andrews is explicitly stated to be the brother of the illustrious Pamela Andrews, whose virtue is famous.

2. What virtue is Pamela Andrews famous for demonstrating?

A. Female learning
B. Purity in temptation
C. Great humility
D. Extensive knowledge

B. Purity in temptation.
The memoirs of Mrs Andrews represent an admirable pattern of the amiable in her sex, focused on preserving purity.

3. What was Joseph Andrews’s first job for Sir Thomas Booby?

A. Stable boy
B. Whipper-in
C. Keeping birds
D. Footman

C. Keeping birds.
Joseph was initially employed in the country performing the part called keeping birds, protecting the crops.

4. Why was Joseph removed from the bird-keeping role?

A. Too much studying
B. He was too young
C. Voice was too musical
D. Became too unruly

C. Voice was too musical.
His voice was so musical that it attracted the birds rather than frightening them, so he was moved.

5. What was Joseph’s age when Lady Booby requested him for her footboy?

A. Twelve years old
B. Fifteen years old
C. Seventeen years old
D. Twenty-one years old

C. Seventeen years old.
After his success in riding races, Lady Booby desired him for her footboy when he was seventeen years of age.

6. What religious book did Joseph read in Sir Thomas’s kitchen?

A. Baker’s Chronicle
B. Thomas a Kempis
C. The Whole Duty of Man
D. The Holy Bible

C. The Whole Duty of Man.
Joseph told Adams he spent leisure hours reading the Bible, Thomas a Kempis, and The Whole Duty of Man.

7. Who is Mrs Slipslop’s relative in the clergy?

A. Vicar’s daughter
B. Parson’s sister
C. Daughter of a curate
D. Mother of a parson

C. Daughter of a curate.
Mrs Slipslop, the waiting-gentlewoman, is specifically mentioned as being the daughter of a curate.

8. What kind of words does Mrs Slipslop frequently misuse?

A. Foreign expressions
B. Hard words
C. Latin phrases
D. Clergy titles

B. Hard words.
Mrs Slipslop was a great affecter of hard words, often baffling Mr Adams with her intended meaning.

9. What is Parson Adams’s official annual income?

A. Fifteen pounds
B. Thirty-five pounds
C. Twenty-three pounds
D. Fifty pounds

C. Twenty-three pounds.
Adams was provided with an official handsome income of twenty-three pounds a year by a bishop.

10. What does Lady Booby initially order Joseph to bring up on the seventh day after Sir Thomas’s death?

A. Her breakfast
B. Her tea-kettle
C. A prayer-book
D. More flowers

B. Her tea-kettle.
On the seventh day after Sir Thomas’s death, Lady Booby ordered Joseph to bring up her tea-kettle.

11. What part of her body does Lady Booby expose to Joseph in bed?

A. Her ankle
B. Her white bosom
C. Her fair hand
D. Her whitest neck

D. Her whitest neck.
Lady Booby raised herself a little, discovering “one of the whitest necks that ever was seen”.

12. What does Joseph say prevents him from betraying a lady’s secret?

A. Great devotion
B. His prudence
C. His virtue
D. Religious duty

C. His virtue.
Joseph claims his virtue would resist her inclination, proving an obstruction to her advances.

13. What relative does Joseph reference to justify his resistance to the Lady?

A. His mother
B. His cousin
C. Sister Pamela
D. His late master

C. Sister Pamela.
Joseph asserts that he is Pamela’s brother and would be ashamed if the family’s chastity were stained in him.

14. What word does Lady Booby use to insult Joseph when dismissing him?

A. Impudent villain
B. Little gìpsy
C. Worthless creature
D. Ugly brute

A. Impudent villain.
Lady Booby cries, “You impudent villain!” when Joseph resists her and cites his sister’s example.

15. What physical feature does Mrs Slipslop have in common with a cow?

A. Her stature
B. Her appearance
C. Her large nose
D. Her breath

D. Her breath.
Slipslop did not resemble a cow so much in her size as in the quality of her breath.

16. Mrs. Slipslop views Joseph’s lack of returned passion as what kind of treatment?

A. Absolute refusal
B. Treating her with ironing
C. Resulting in her passion
D. Utter ingratitude

B. Treating her with ironing.
Slipslop furiously asks Joseph if he intends to “result my passion? …but you must treat me with ironing?”.

17. What item saved Joseph from Mrs Slipslop’s violent amorous hands?

A. Joseph’s resistance
B. Lady Booby’s bell
C. Mrs. Adams
D. A sudden illness

B. Lady Booby’s bell.
Mrs Slipslop was preparing to attack Joseph when the ringing of her mistress’s bell saved him.

18. Where does Lady Booby resolve to retire after dismissing Joseph?

A. To her bedchamber
B. Into the country
C. To London immediately
D. To Parson Adams

B. Into the country.
Lady Booby resolved to retire immediately to the country after her confrontation with Joseph.

19. What debt collector assists the servants by lending money at high interest?

A. Mr. Scout
B. Mr. Peter Pounce
C. Mr. Squeeze-Tithe
D. Mr. Tow-wouse

B. Mr Peter Pounce.
Joseph had applied to Mr Peter Pounce, who advanced wages early at a rate of fifty per cent interest.

20. What is the name of Joseph’s beloved young girl in the country?

A. Pamela
B. Leonora
C. Fanny
D. Harriet

C. Fanny.
Joseph resolved to travel to Lady Booby’s country seat to see a young girl named Fanny, whom he loved.

21. Why had Fanny not communicated with Joseph during his absence?

A. She was ill
B. She could neither write nor read
C. She was guarded closely
D. She was too modest

B. She could neither write nor read.
Fanny could not converse with Joseph because she could neither write nor read during their absence.

22. What event causes Joseph to be robbed and stripped naked?

A. Stagecoach accident
B. Attack by ruffians
C. Drowning in the ditch
D. Mrs. Tow-wouse

B. Attack by ruffians.
Joseph tells the gentlemen he had been robbed and almost beaten to death by ruffians.

23. Why did Joseph refuse to enter the stagecoach naked?

A. He was too injured
B. Citing decency
C. Afraid of the cold
D. Fear of the lady

B. Citing decency.
Joseph absolutely refused to enter the coach unless covered sufficiently to prevent offence to decency.

24. Who gave up their only garment to cover the naked Joseph?

A. The lady’s footman
B. The coachman
C. The postillion
D. A kind passenger

C. The postillion.
The postillion, a lad later transported for theft, voluntarily stripped off his only garment, a greatcoat.

25. What is the sign of the inn where Joseph is taken after the robbery?

A. The Lion
B. The Fox and Goose
C. The Queen’s Head
D. The Black Bear

A. The Lion.
Joseph was carried to “a famous house of hospitality” whose signpost presents a lion.

26. What item of his, stolen by the robbers, does Joseph value highly?

A. A gold watch
B. A pòor little piece of gold
C. His sword
D. A diamond ring

B. A pòor little piece of gold.
Joseph lamented the loss of “a pòor little piece of gold, which they took away,” which he wore with a ribbon.

27. What book did Joseph insist on reading while recovering at the inn?

A. The Whole Duty of Man
B. The New Testament
C. Thomas a Kempis
D. Baker’s Chronicle

B. The New Testament.
Joseph requested his good books, including the New Testament, as soon as he was settled in his bed.

28. What does Parson Barnabas call the sin of insufficient forgiveness?

A. A venial sin
B. High Treason
C. Diffidence and despondence
D. Deadly sin

C. Diffidence and despondence.
Barnabas told Joseph that such fears concerning his inability to forgive argued a diffidence and despondence, which was criminal.

29. What item did Adams mistake for his sermons in the saddlebag?

A. His old clothes
B. Three shirts, a pair of shoes
C. His Latin dictionary
D. His wife’s linen

B. Three shirts, a pair of shoes.
Adams discovered that the nine volumes of sermons were actually three shirts, a pair of shoes, and other necessaries.

30. What profession does the gentleman in the stagecoach who discusses Joseph’s fate belong to?

A. He belonged to the law
B. A medical doctor
C. A merchant
D. A postilion

A. He belonged to the law.
The young man who insisted Joseph be admitted to the coach to avoid indictment was a lawyer.

31. What classical author’s manuscript was found in Adams’s pocket at the justice’s house?

A. Virgil
B. Plato
C. Aeschylus
D. Homer

C. Aeschylus.
The clerk found a suspicious book in Adams’s pocket, which Adams confirmed was his manuscript of Aeschylus.

32. Who told Adams the new bookseller would not pay more than “Not twelve pence” for a volume of sermons?

A. Mr. Scout
B. Mr. Tow-wouse
C. Parson Barnabas
D. Mr. Pounce

C. Parson Barnabas.
Barnabas told Adams he was only offered “Not twelve pence” by a bookseller for his own volume of sermons.

33. What is the trade of the kind host at the Lion Inn, Mr Tow-wouse?

A. A tradesman
B. Master of an inn
C. An exciseman
D. A surgeon

B. Master of an inn.
Mr Tow-wouse is repeatedly referred to as the host or master of the inn where Joseph recovers.

34. What classical author’s manuscript was found in Adams’s pocket at the justice’s house?

A. Homer
B. Plutarch
C. Aeschylus
D. Virgil

C. Aeschylus.
The clerk found a suspicious book in Adams’s pocket, which Adams confirmed was his manuscript of Aeschylus.

35. How much money did the pedlar lend Adams and Joseph to settle their bill?

A. Three guineas
B. One shilling
C. Six shillings and sixpence
D. One hundred pounds

C. Six shillings and sixpence.
The pedlar lent Joseph six shillings and sixpence, which, combined with Joseph’s sixpence, paid the bill.

36. What action does Adams perform when Fanny faints near the fire?

A. Calls for the surgeon
B. Throws his Aeschylus
C. Starts singing
D. Asks for a drink

B. Throws his Aeschylus.
Adams leapt in alarm and, forgetting himself, nearly destroyed his cherished manuscript of Aeschylus in the commotion.

37. According to the author, what is the meaning of “high people”?

A. Very tall people
B. People of fashion
C. People of virtue
D. Intellectual people

B. People of fashion.
The author specifies that “High people signify no other than people of fashion”.

38. What physical mark did Mr Wilson’s lost son possess?

A. A birthmark
B. A small scar
C. Strawberry on his left breast
D. A mole on his arm

C. Strawberry on his left breast.
Wilson states that his lost son had “a mark on his left breast of a strawberry”.

39. What was the name of Mr Wilson’s wife, who sent him money while in prison?

A. Leonora
B. Slipslop
C. Harriet
D. Fanny

C. Harriet.
Mr Wilson refers to his wife as his “Harriet” when discussing her excellent housekeeping and making his liquor.

40. What creature did the young squire shoot in Mr Wilson’s garden?

A. A small bird
B. A favourite dog
C. A tame rabbit
D. A stray cat

B. A favourite dog.
A neighbour informed them that the young squire had shot the eldest daughter’s little dog, the family favourite.

41. What classical quotation does Adams cite to defend ignorance over corrupted knowledge?

A. Nil conscire sibi
B. Hinc illae lachrymae
C. Autokopros
D. Lege, Dick, Lege

A. Nil conscire sibi.
Adams cries “Hinc illae lachrymae” (hence those tears) when arguing that knowledge of the world corrupts youth.

42. What act of charity does Joseph suggest gives a man the most honour?

A. Building a stately house
B. Redeeming a pòor family
C. Giving generously to the church
D. Buying fine pictures

B. Redeeming a pòor family.
Joseph argues that redeeming a pòor family or an undone debtor brings more honour than fine houses or clothes.

43. What caused the hounds to attack Parson Adams?

A. He hit them
B. Mistook him for the hare’s skin
C. Joseph ordered them
D. They disliked the cassock

B. Mistook him for the hare’s skin.
The dogs, devouring the hare, tore the corpse so close to Adams that they mistook his cassock for the hare’s skin.

44. What object did Adams seize to use as a shield against Beau Didapper?

A. A crabstick
B. A chair cushion
C. The lid of a pot
D. A wooden plate

C. The lid of a pot.
When the beau drew his hanger, Adams snatched up the lid of a pot, covering himself with it as a shield.

45. What news about Joseph and Fanny does the parson pronounce in church?

A. Their reconciliation
B. The banns of marriage
C. Fanny’s baptism
D. Joseph’s new job

B. The banns of marriage.
Mr Adams stood up and publicly pronounced the banns of marriage between Joseph Andrews and Fanny Goodwill.

46. Why does Lady Booby want to stop the marriage banns?

A. Joseph is too young
B. To prevent burdening the parish with the pòor
C. Fanny is too ugly
D. Fanny has low morals

B. To prevent burdening the parish with the pòor.
Lady Booby tells Adams she will not have more vagabonds settle, fearing they will burden the parish.

47. What reason does Scout give for not being able to legally stop the wedding immediately?

A. Adams is too obstinate
B. Fanny is too clever
C. The law is a little deficient
D. Joseph is Mr Booby’s brother

C. The law is a little deficient.
Scout admits the law is a little deficient regarding prevention, but the justice can stretch it to please her ladyship.

48. What fact convinces Joseph that Fanny is his long-lost sister?

A. They look similar
B. The strawberry birthmark
C. Their shared story
D. The pedlar’s certainty

B. The strawberry birthmark.
Upon hearing that Fanny was the stolen Andrews daughter, Joseph and Fanny were terrified they were siblings.

49. Who ultimately reveals that Joseph himself was the exchanged child?

A. Mr. Wilson
B. Gammar Andrews
C. Mr. Scout
D. The pedlar’s wife

B. Gammar Andrews.
Gammar Andrews confessed that she exchanged her sickly baby (Joseph) for the healthier stolen child.

50. What final act of generosity did Mr Booby perform for Fanny?

A. Gave her a gold necklace
B. Offered her a great house
C. Paid for her wedding dress
D. Given Fanny a fortune of two thousand pounds

D. Given Fanny a fortune of two thousand pounds.
Mr Booby generously presented Fanny with a large fortune of two thousand pounds after the true family connections were settled.

Brief Overview

Joseph Andrews is a satirical novel by Henry Fielding, first published in 1742. It is a picaresque novel that details the misadventures and moral virtue of the title character, Joseph Andrews.

The story centers on Joseph Andrews, a young, handsome footman who works for Lady Booby. Joseph is the famously virtuous brother of Pamela (from a separate novel). After Sir Thomas Booby dies, Lady Booby pursues Joseph and tries to seduce him.

Joseph resists her advances, determined to keep his virtue. The waiting-gentlewoman, Mrs. Slipslop, also desires him, but Joseph rejects her as well. Lady Booby becomes angry at his refusal and fires Joseph.

Joseph immediately leaves London, using his wages to travel and find his true love, Fanny. Fanny is a poor, beautiful girl who was his fellow servant.

Joseph is soon joined by his friend, Parson Adams, a kind clergyman known for his goodness but also his extreme innocence of the world. On the road, Joseph is robbed and brutally beaten until he is left naked in a ditch. A stagecoach finds him, but a lady passenger refuses to ride with a naked man. A postillion finally gives Joseph a greatcoat.

Joseph is determined to marry Fanny quickly. Parson Adams supports the couple, viewing them as his own children. Joseph and Fanny happily reunite and decide they will live together forever, planning to quickly publish their marriage banns.