Collection of important MCQs on Henry Fielding
The most famous novel of Fielding is:
(A) Pamela
(B) Joseph Andrews
(C) Amelia
(D) Tom Jones
Question’s Answer: Tom Jones
Fielding and his three other fellow novelists are famous as:
(A) The Four Makers of the English Novel
(B) The Four Pillars of the English Novel
(C) The Four Wheels of the Van of the English Novel
(D) The Four Founders of the English Novel
Question’s Answer: The Four Wheels of the Van of the English Novel
Who is the author of Pamela ?
(A) Fielding
(B) Smollett
(C) Richardson
(D) Sterne
Question’s Answer: Richardson
What is the subtitle of Pamela ?
(A) Virtue Reconsidered
(B) Virtue Rewarded
(C) Virtue Its Own Reward
(D) A Virgin Maid
Question’s Answer: Virtue Rewarded
Which novels is not created and written by Fielding?
(A) Tom Jones
(B) Joseph Andrews
(C) Amelia
(D) Tristram Shandy
Question’s Answer: Tristram Shandy
Which novels is not created and written by Smollett?
(A) Humphry Clinker
(B) Tristram Shandy
(C) Roderick Random
(D) None of these
Question’s Answer: Tristram Shandy
Who is the author of Sentimental Journey?
(A) Fielding
(B) Smollett
(C) Richardson
(D) Sterne
Question’s Answer: Sterne
Who is the author of the novel “Roderick Random” ?
(A) Fielding
(B) Richardson
(C) Sterne
(D) Smollett
Question’s Answer: Smollett
Who was the first author who brought into vogue the proper English Novel?
(A) Fielding
(B) Smollett
(C) Richardson
(D) Sterne
Question’s Answer: Richardson
Who is the author of Adventures of an Atom?
(A) Sterne
(B) Smollett
(C) Fielding
(D) Richardson
Question’s Answer: Smollett
Fielding’s last novel was:
(A) Tom Jones
(B) Adventures of Joseph Andrews
(C) Pamela
(D) Amelia
Question’s Answer: Amelia
How many novels did Richardson write?
(A) Three
(B) Two
(C) One
(D) Four
Question’s Answer: Three
Who is the author of Tristram Shandy?
(A) Fielding
(B) Sterne
(C) Smollett
(D) Richardson
Question’s Answer: Sterne
Tristram Shandy is written in:
(A) Nine Volumes
(B) Four Volumes
(C) Seven Volumes
(D) Two Volumes
Question’s Answer: Nine Volumes
Fielding’s Tom Jones is called _____ .
(A) An epic in prose
(B) An immoral novel
(C) A vulgar novel
(D) A lyrical novel
Question’s Answer: An epic in prose
What type of hero is Tom Jones?
(A) A wandering rogue
(B) An immoral adventurer
(C) A social reformer
(D) A knight on his journey
Question’s Answer: A knight on his journey
Which of the novels is not a creation of Samuel Richardson?
(a) Pamela
(b) Clarissa
(c) None of these
(d) Gone with the Wind
What kind of novel is Epistolary novel?
(a) Which is based on a letter written by a great man
(b) Which is written in the form of artletters
(c) Which is based on fanciful stories of ghosts and witches
(d) Which is a science fiction
Question’s Answer: Which is written in the form of artletters
Which novels was not a creation of English novelist “Henry Fielding”?
(a) Tom Jones
(b) Joseph Andrews
(c) Robinson Crusoe
(d) Shamela
Question’s Answer: Robinson Crusoe
Which novelists is a contemporary of Fielding?
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Thomas Hardy
Question’s Answer: Daniel Defoe
Which novel is a creation of Richardson ?
(a) The Castle
(b) Pamela
(c) Moll Flanders
(d) Shamela
Question’s Answer: Pamela
Which of the novels is a creation of Samuel Richardson?
(a) Jane Eyre
(b) A Farewell to Arms
(c) Clarissa
(d) Gone with the Wind
Question’s Answer: Clarissa
Scottish poet “Tobias Smollett” lived for how many years?
(a) Sixty five
(b) Fifty five
(c) eight nine
(d) Fifty
Question’s Answer: Fifty
Fielding’s Shamela seems to be a parody of which of the following?
(a) Robinson Crusoe
(b) Clarissa
(c) Pamela
(d) Moll Flanders
Question’s Answer: Pamela
Which of these novels has been written in Epistolary style?
(a) Joseph Andrews
(b) Pamela
(c) Shamela
(d) Tom Jones
Question’s Answer: Pamela
Which novels was the creation of English novelist “Henry Fielding”?
(a) Robinson Crusoe
(b) Tom Jones
(c) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(d) Moll Flanders
(e) (b), (c) & (d)
(b), (c) & (d)
Heartfree is a leading character in which novels of Fielding?
(a) Tom Jones
(b) Jonathan Wild
(c) Joseph Andrews
(d) Shamela
Question’s Answer: Jonathan Wild
Which statements about Tom and Sophia in Tom Jones can be considered as correct?
(a) Sophia and Tom are mother and son
(b) Tom and Sophia are brother and sister
(c) Tom and Sophia are lover and beloved
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Tom and Sophia are lover and beloved
Sophia is the leading female character in which of the novels of Fielding?
(a) Shamela
(b) Joseph Andrews
(c) Jonathan Wild
(d) Tom Jones
Question’s Answer: Tom Jones
Which novelists is not a contemporary of Fielding?
(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) James Joyce
(c) Scottish poet “Tobias Smollett”
(d) Richardson
Question’s Answer: James Joyce
English novelist “Henry Fielding” can be put in which categories?
(a) Early 18th century novelist
(b) A prose-romance writer of 16th century
(c) Gothic novelist
(d) Modern novelist
Question’s Answer: Early 18th century novelist
E.M. Forster has divided characters in a novel into two categories-round and
flat. Which category would you assign the bulk of Tom Jones’s cast?
(a) Flat characters
(b) Round characters
(c) Flat and round both
(d) Neither flat nor round
Question’s Answer: Flat characters
In Tom Jones conventional society may be seen as its embopass away in _____ .
(a) The character of Tom
(b) The character of Sophia
(c) The character of Lady Bellaston
(d) The character of Blifil
Question’s Answer: The character of Blifil
In Fielding’s Tom Jones Mr. Western, the father of Sophia, wants her to marry with which of the following?
(a) Tom Jones
(b) Black George
(c) Allworthy
(d) Mr. Blifil
Question’s Answer: Mr. Blifil
In Fielding’s Tom Jones ‘Nightingale’ is the name of which of the following?
(a) A bird
(b) A male character
(c) An Inn
(d) A female character
Question’s Answer: A male character
Whom does Jonathan Wild marry in Fielding’s novel Jonathan Wild?
(a) Laetitia Snap
(b) Fanny
(c) Shamela
(d) Pamela
Question’s Answer: Laetitia Snap
What happened at the end of the novel Jonathan Wild ?
(a) Jonathan Wild marries Mrs.Heartfree
(b) Jonathan Wild renounces the world and becomes a priest
(c) Jonathan Wild is hanged
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Jonathan Wild is hanged
______ saved the life of Mrs. Waters from the villain Northerton In Tom Jones by English novelist “Henry Fielding”.
(a) Blifil
(b) An oldman
(c) Allworthy
(d) Tom
Question’s Answer: Tom
When was English novelist “Henry Fielding” was born?
(a) 8 March 1714
(b) 23 December 1700
(c) 14 June 1721
(d) 22 April 1707
Question’s Answer: 22 April 1707
In Fielding’s Tom Jones, Tom has a misapprehension of having committed incest with his mother, Mrs. Waters, This situation is ________ .
(a) Quixotic
(b) Oedipus-like
(c) Homeric
(d) Herculean
Question’s Answer: Oedipus-like
According to_____, “In Tom Jones there is too much plot.”
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) F.R. Leavis
(c) Arnold Kettle
(d) Ian Watt
Question’s Answer: Arnold Kettle
In the context of Fielding’s Jonathan Wild, which of the statements can be considered as correct?
(a) Jonathan Wild was an organiser of thieves
(b) Jonathan Wild was a priest sa
(c) Jonathan Wild, was a philanthropist
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Jonathan Wild was an organiser of thieves
Blueskin is a character in which novels of Fielding?
(a) Joseph Andrews
(b) Tom Jones
(c) Amelia
(d) Jonathan Wild
Question’s Answer: Jonathan Wild
The novels of which novelist have been termed ‘comic epic in prose”?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Henry James
(c) English novelist “Henry Fielding”
(d) James Joyce
Question’s Answer: English novelist “Henry Fielding”
In Fielding’s Joseph Andrews, Joseph Andrews was turned out of the house for what motives?
(a) Joseph Andrews was very lazy
(b) Joseph Andrews was dishonest.
(c) Joseph Andrews refused to satisfy the sexual desire of Lady Booby
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: None of these
Which is Smollett’s last work?
(a) Peregrine Pickle
(b) Roderick Random
(c) Humphrey Clinker
(d) None of the above
Question’s Answer: Humphrey Clinker
Smollett models his novels on
(a) Dr Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
(b) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
(c) Cervantes’ Don Quixote
(d) Fielding’s Joseph Andrews
Question’s Answer: Cervantes’ Don Quixote
In Fielding’s Amelia, Which statements is correct about Dr. Harrison?
(a) Dr. Harrison was a villain always trying to do some harm to Amelia
(b) Dr. Harrison was a benefactor for Booths
(c) Dr. Harrison is the narrator an the novel
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Dr. Harrison was a benefactor for Booths
How many books are there in Tom Jones?
(a) 18
(b) 16
(c) 17
(d) 15
Question’s Answer: 18
In Tom Jones. Sophia is finally happily married to
(a) Blitil
(b) Tom Jones
(c) Squire Western
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Tom Jones
With which characters did Amelia marry in Fielding’s Amelia?
(a) Mr. Fitzpatrick
(b) Booth
(c) Parson Andrews
(d) Bhil
Question’s Answer: Booth
Comic epic in prose was initiated by which of the following author?
(a) Samuel Richardson
(b) Pope
(c) Fielding
(d) Prior
Question’s Answer: Fielding
Henery Fielding’s Tom Jones was dedicated to ___________ .
(a) The Jolly Beggars
(b) Josheph Andrews
(c) Samuel Richardson
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Josheph Andrews
Which novelist had a connection to the medical field that he subsequently referenced in his works?
(a) Richardson
(b) English novelist “Henry Fielding”
(c) Scottish poet “Tobias Smollett”
(d) Daniel Defoe
Question’s Answer: Scottish poet “Tobias Smollett”
Which novels was not a creation of Smollett?
(a) Roderick Random
(b) Humphrey Clinker
(c) Peregrine Pickle
(d) Clarissa Harlowe
Question’s Answer: Clarissa Harlowe
Henry Fielding books names
| Shamela | 1741 |
| Joseph Andrews | 1742 |
| The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | 1743 |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 1749 |
| Amelia | 1751 |
Dr Samuel Johnson Basic info
| Full Name | Samuel Johnson |
| Birthdate | September 18, 1709 |
| Birthplace | Lichfield, Staffordshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Writer, lexicographer, critic, essayist |
| Notable Works | “A Dictionary of the English Language,” “The Lives of the Poets,” “Rasselas” |
| Literary Style | Periodic sentences, moralistic, classical influences |
| Education | Pembroke College, Oxford (did not graduate) |
| Influences | Classical literature, particularly the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden |
| Contemporaries | James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Achievements | Created one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language, significant contributions to English literature and criticism |
| Death Date | December 13, 1784 |
| Death Place | London, England |
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