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Henry Fielding - Test
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  • 1. What year was Henry Fielding born?
A) 1707
B) 1717
C) 1727
D) 1737
  • 2. Which of the following novels was written by Henry Fielding?
A) Moby Dick
B) 1984
C) Tom Jones
D) Emma
  • 3. What is the full name of Henry Fielding's famous novel 'Tom Jones'?
A) Tom Jones: A Love Story
B) Tom Jones and the Adventure of a Lifetime
C) The Adventures of Tom Jones
D) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • 4. What profession did Henry Fielding also hold aside from being a novelist?
A) Ship Captain
B) Physician
C) Magistrate
D) Architect
  • 5. What is the title of Henry Fielding's satirical play that criticizes the Walpole government?
A) The Historical Register for the Year 1736
B) Theatre of the Absurd
C) The Government Inspector
D) The Critic
  • 6. In what year did Henry Fielding die?
A) 1774
B) 1784
C) 1764
D) 1754
  • 7. What event inspired Henry Fielding to start writing plays and prose satire?
A) The French Revolution
B) The Boston Tea Party
C) The Licensing Act of 1737
D) The Great Plague
  • 8. What was the name of Henry Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela'?
A) Sophia
B) Miranda
C) Shamela
D) Lucinda
  • 9. Which of the following works by Henry Fielding is considered his first major novel?
A) Shamela
B) Jonathan Wild
C) Joseph Andrews
D) Amelia
  • 10. Which famous author and politician was Henry Fielding's half-brother?
A) John Fielding
B) Joseph Addison
C) Alexander Pope
D) John Dryden
  • 11. Which university did Henry Fielding attend for his studies in classics and law?
A) Middle Temple
B) Eton College
C) University of London
D) Leiden University
  • 12. What was the name of London's first professional police force founded by Fielding?
A) The Eton Guards
B) The Bow Street Runners
C) The Westminster Watch
D) The Middle Temple Police
  • 13. Who was Henry Fielding's wealthy benefactor that helped support his family?
A) Ralph Allen
B) William Pitt the Elder
C) George Lyttelton
D) Charles Spencer
  • 14. Which literary form did Fielding blend in 'Joseph Andrews'?
A) Pastoral poetry
B) Comic epic poem in prose
C) Tragic drama
D) Historical fiction
  • 15. What was the name of the opposition Whig MP who supported Fielding's writing for The Craftsman?
A) William Pitt the Elder
B) George Lyttelton
C) Lord Chesterfield
D) Charles Spencer
  • 16. What was the subject matter of 'Jonathan Wild, the Great'?
A) A romantic adventure
B) A satire equating Walpole with a gang leader and highwayman
C) A historical account of British politics
D) A biography of Jonathan Wild
  • 17. Which literary club did Fielding associate himself with through the pseudonym 'H. Scriblerus Secundus'?
A) The Cobhamites
B) The Scriblerus Club
C) The Etonians
D) The Whig Party
  • 18. What was the title of Fielding's play dedicated to Lord Chesterfield?
A) Pasquin
B) Tom Thumb
C) The Universal Gallant
D) Don Quixote in England
  • 19. Which publication did Fielding co-found and initially edit under the persona 'Captain Hercules Vinegar'?
A) The Champion; or, British Mercury
B) Pasquin
C) Common Sense
D) The Craftsman
  • 20. What was the main theme of Fielding's 'Female Husband'?
A) A case involving a female transvestite and marriage fraud
B) A romantic comedy
C) An adventure story
D) A political satire
  • 21. Which character in 'Tom Jones' is based on Fielding's benefactor?
A) Sophia Western
B) Mr. Partridge
C) Squire Allworthy
D) Blifil
  • 22. What was the impact of Theatrical Licensing Act 1737 on Fielding's career?
A) It boosted his popularity as a novelist
B) It led him to write more comedies
C) It ended his career as a playwright due to restrictions on political satire
D) It had no significant impact
  • 23. What was Fielding's role in law enforcement history?
A) He founded the Bow Street Runners, London's first professional police force
B) He wrote legal textbooks
C) He served as a judge in the Middle Temple
D) He established the Eton School of Law
  • 24. What was Fielding's relationship with William Pitt the Elder?
A) Pitt was a rival playwright
B) They were lifelong friends from their time at Eton College
C) Pitt was Fielding's patron
D) They co-authored several plays
  • 25. What was the primary theme of Fielding's 'Tom Thumb'?
A) Romantic adventure
B) Historical drama
C) Political commentary
D) Satirical burlesque with a diminutive hero
  • 26. What was the main focus of Fielding's writing in The Craftsman?
A) Biographies of political figures
B) Celebration of Whig heroes
C) Opposition to bribery and corruption in British politics
D) Support for Sir Robert Walpole
  • 27. What was the pseudonym used by Fielding to link himself with the Scriblerus Club?
A) Squire Allworthy
B) Captain Hercules Vinegar
C) Jonathan Wild
D) H. Scriblerus Secundus
  • 28. Which of Fielding's works was dedicated to Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough?
A) The Universal Gallant
B) Don Quixote in England
C) Tom Thumb
D) Pasquin
  • 29. In what year did Henry Fielding marry Charlotte Craddock?
A) 1734
B) 1753
C) 1749
D) 1744
  • 30. How many children did Henry and Charlotte Fielding have together?
A) Four
B) Five
C) Three
D) Two
  • 31. Who was Henrietta Fielding married to before her death at age 23?
A) William Fielding
B) John Fielding
C) Henry Fielding
D) James Gabriel Montresor
  • 32. Who did Henry Fielding marry after Charlotte's death?
A) Henrietta Fielding
B) Charlotte Craddock
C) Mary Daniel
D) Sarah Fielding
  • 33. What did Henry Fielding propose to abolish in his influential pamphlets?
A) Public hangings
B) Capital punishment
C) The death penalty
D) Prison sentences
  • 34. Which year did Henry Fielding publish 'Proposals for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor'?
A) 1752
B) 1749
C) 1753
D) 1754
  • 35. In which year did Henry Fielding publish 'An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews'?
A) 1751
B) 1742
C) 1741
D) 1743
  • 36. Where did Henry Fielding die?
A) London, England
B) Wells, England
C) Lisbon, Portugal
D) Oxford, England
  • 37. Which novel by Henry Fielding was published in 1751?
A) The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Adams
B) An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
C) A Journey from this World to the Next
D) Amelia
  • 38. In which year did Henry Fielding publish 'The Female Husband'?
A) 1749
B) 1751
C) 1746
D) 1743
  • 39. In which year was 'Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap' originally published?
A) 1731
B) 1728
C) 1732
D) 1730
  • 40. 'The Covent-Garden Tragedy' originally appeared in repertory with which play?
A) Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy
B) The Author's Farce
C) The Lottery
D) The Old Debauchees
  • 41. 'The Mock Doctor: or The Dumb Lady Cur'd' was adapted from a play by which author?
A) Thomas Arne
B) Molière
C) Jean-François Regnard
D) Juvenal
  • 42. 'Don Quixote in England' is a type of which musical genre?
A) Closet drama
B) Ballad opera
C) Farce
D) Burlesque tragedy
  • 43. Which play by Henry Fielding had incidental music composed by Thomas Arne and was based on works by Molière and Plautus?
A) Eurydice Hiss'd, or A Word to the Wise
B) The Universal Gallant
C) Miss Lucy in Town
D) The Miser
  • 44. 'Lock Up Your Daughters' is a musical based on which of Fielding's plays?
A) Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy
B) Don Quixote in England
C) Rape Upon Rape
D) The Old Debauchees
  • 45. 'Eurydice Hiss'd, or A Word to the Wise' is a sequel to which play?
A) The Intriguing Chambermaid
B) The Modern Husband
C) The Universal Gallant
D) Eurydice, A Farce
  • 46. 'The Fathers' was published posthumously with which other work?
A) Thomas Arne's incidental music for The Miser
B) Oliver Goldsmith's The Good-Natur'd Man
C) William Holcroft's adaptation of The Covent-Garden Tragedy
D) Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett's Opera of Operas
  • 47. 'Squire Badger: A burletta in two acts' was revived under what name?
A) The Sot
B) Don Quixote in England
C) The Universal Gallant
D) Tom Thumb the Great
  • 48. 'The Rival Queens' is an adaptation of which Fielding play?
A) Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy
B) The Covent-Garden Tragedy
C) Don Quixote in England
D) Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap
  • 49. In what year was 'The military history of Charles XII' translated by Henry Fielding published?
A) 1752
B) 1755
C) 1740
D) 1743
  • 50. Who wrote the original work that Henry Fielding translated regarding Charles XII of Sweden?
A) John Dryden
B) M. Gustaf Adlerfelt (Gustavus Adlerfeld)
C) Voltaire
D) Charles XII himself
  • 51. In which year was 'The Covent-Garden Journal' published?
A) 1743
B) 1752
C) 1760
D) 1755
  • 52. What genre does 'The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon' belong to?
A) Poetry collection
B) Satire
C) Travel narrative
D) Historical account
  • 53. How many cases are discussed in Fielding's work on the detection and punishment of murder?
A) Above thirty
B) Fifty
C) Twenty-five
D) Ten
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