Henry Fielding
1.Which Augustan writer’s epitaph reads : “one who strove with all his might to champion liberty” ?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Daniel Defoe
Answer: B
2.The Female Quixote was written by :
(A)Henry Fielding
(B)Tobias Smollett
(C) Charlotte Lennox
(D) Aphra Behn
Answer: C
3.Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding
Answer: C
4.One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader – “Reader, I married him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Answer: B
5.Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ?
(A) Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller
(B) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
(D) Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
Answer: C
6.The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is the novelist?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Tobias Smollett
Answer: B
7.Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and what is the title of the short story?
(1) Rudyard Kipling, “Revisiting the Jungle”
(2) Joseph Conrad, “Shadows of the Dark Trees”
(3) Charles Dickens, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
(4) Henry Fielding, “Tom Jones’s Journey into the Wild”
Answer: 3
8.Which of the following work by Henry Fielding begins as a parody of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela?
1. Tom Jones
2. Don Quixote
3. Amelia
4. Joseph Andrews
Answer: 4
9.Match the Novelist with the Publisher :
(a) Laurence Sterne
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Frances Burney
(d) Daniel Defoe
(i) Thomas Lowndes
(ii) Andrew Millar
(iii) William Taylor
(iv) Robert Dodsley
Choose the correct option from those given below :
1. (a)-(iii); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iv)
2. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(iv); (b)-(ii); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
Answer: 3