Joseph Andrews By Henry Fielding

1. Novel: Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding.
Short question Answers:
Book 1 – Book 4
Made by the students of BS (English) 4th semester
Session 2012-2016
Book: 1 Chapter1
1. How is fielding’s tone in the beginning of the novel?
2. What reason does Fielding explain for writing this novel?
3. How is the novel “Joseph Andrews” related to Pamela?
4. Which two books are mentioned in chapter one?
Chapter2
5. What is told Joseph parentage in chapter two?
6. What do we know about Joseph job experiences?
7. At what age he started working?
8. When was he appointed as Lady Booby’s foot boy?
9. Who were Sir Thomas Booby and Lady Booby?
10. Why was Parson Adams impressed by Joseph?
11. What was Joseph Andrews nickname?
Chapter3
12. Give a character sketch of Abrahim Adams?
13. How many languages did Adam speak?
14. How was Joseph’s religious knowledge?
15. How Mr and Mrs Booby used to judge and treat the people?
16. Who is Mrs Slipslop?
17. Why Mrs Slipslop wanted Adams to praise her?
Chapter4
18. What was Joseph’s activities in London?
19. How Mrs Booby behaved with Joseph in London?
20. What influences Joseph Andrews in London?
Chapter5
21. What is the main incident in this chapter?
22. What was the condition of Lady Booby after her husband’s death?

2. 23. Describe the seduction seen between Joseph and Lady Booby?
24. Whom Joseph Andrews exemplified before Lady Booby?
Chapter6
25. Describe a little about the letter of Joseph Andrews to Pamela?
26. What did Joseph Andrew write about the condition of his mistress to his sister?
27. What is the physical appearance of Mrs Slipslop?
28. What things were offered to Joseph Andrews by Mrs Slipslop?
29. Why did Slipslop became annoyed?
Chapter7
30. What did Mrs Slipslop tell Lady Booby about Joseph Andrews?
31. Which maid was pointed out to bear Joseph’s child?
32. What did Lady Booby did with Betty?
33. What suggestions was given to Lady Booby by Slipslop?
Chapter8
34. What is the physical appearance of Joseph Andrews?
35. How Henry Fielding describes the personality of Joseph Andrews?
36. Why Lady Booby got annoyed and what did Joseph Andrews tell her?
37. When Lady Booby asks Joseph what would you think Joseph, if admitted you to kiss
me, what was Joseph reaction?
38. What was Lady Booby’s reaction on Joseph’s reply and what she said to him?
39. What did Lady Booby do when she failed to pursue Joseph Andrews for kissing her?
40. Describe the similarities between the character of Lady Booby and Mrs Slipslop?
Chapter9
41. Who was given the charge of stripping Joseph Andrew off his livery?
42. Why did Lady Booby and Mrs Slipslop reconciled with each other?
Chapter10
43. To whom Joseph Andrews wrote the letter?
44. What does Joseph Andrews write in the letter to his sister?
45. What does Joseph borrow from other servants?
Chapter11
46. Why does Joseph Andrews set out to Booby’s country seat?
47. What advice Mr Adams gave to Fanny and Joseph?
48. How many years Fanny was younger to Joseph?
49. Why Joseph and Fanny could not talk to each other?
50. For how long Fanny and Joseph did not talk to each other?

3. 51. What was the name of the Inn where Joseph stayed?
52. What was the name of the master of Inn where Joseph stayed?
53. Why Joseph stopped at Inn and who he met there?
54. With whom joseph continued his journey when the storm stopped?
Chapter 12
55. What happened to Joseph when he continued his journey after his stay at Inn?
56. Why some people in the coach were against the decision of helping Joseph?
57. What was the name of the Inn where the coach reached?
58. What was the name of the master of Inn?
59. Who managed to provide a shirt to Joseph Andrews?
Chapter13
60. What did the surgeon tell about the condition of Joseph Andrews?
61. For what reason Joseph Andrews was thanking God?
62. In what activities Parson Barnabas was interested?
63. What Joseph requested to have?
Chapter14
64. Why Adams was going to London?
65. How Adams came to know that the wounded boy was Joseph?
66. About what the surgeon and Parson Barnabas were discussing?
67. What did the thief declared?
68. Why Mrs Tow wouse changed her behaviour towards Joseph?
69. What did Parson Adams offer to Joseph?
70. What has Fielding said about vanity in this chapter?
Chapter15
71. How and why Mrs Tow wouse behaviour changed towards Joseph?
72. Why Joseph did not give away the piece of gold?
73. What was the reason of Adams journey?
Chapter16
74. How did the thief managed to escape?
75. To whom Parson Adams went to ask for money?
76. What did Parson Barnabas advice Parson Adams to do?
77. What did Joseph suggested Adams to do?
Chapter17
78. How does the publisher sheakes about the sermons?
79. What is the reason of Mrs Tow wouse crying in this chapter?

4. 80. How Betty defends herself?
Chapter18
81. What kind of feelings Betty had for Joseph?
Book: 2 Chapter1
1. What did fielding tell about divisions in books?
2. What does Henry Fielding call these divisions?
3. Whose example did Henry Fielding give on divisions?
Chapter2
4. What forgetfulness of Mr Adams changed the plan of their journey?
5. Instead of sermons what did Adams put in the bag?
6. What was forgotten by Mr Adams to pay for?
Chapter3
7. What does Mr Adams learns from the two lawyers?
8. While waiting for the storm to pass with whom Adams was talking to?
9. What thing surprised Adams about the woman in the coach?
10. And what made Adams more surprised?
11. About what Adams and Mrs Slipslop were gossiping in the coach?
12. What kind of comments Mrs Slipslop made on Lady Booby?
Chapter4
13. What is the main incident in chapter4?
14. Who is Parson Trulliber?
15. What did Parson Trulliber think of Parson Adams?
16. How did Parson Trulliber react when Parson Adams has thrown on the ground by a
hog?
17. What does Parson Trulliber like more than church?
18. What did Parson Adams tell Parson Trulliber?
19. How does Parson Trulliber react after hearing that Parson Adams asked for charity?
20. What did Parson Adams say on learning?
Chapter5
21. How did Joseph Andrews get hurt?
22. Why did Parson Adams fight with the host?
23. What did the gentleman advice Parson Adams?

5. Chapter6
24. Which place did Leonora visit?
25. What was the place were Leonora resided?
26. Who was Bellarmine?
27. Why didn’t Leonora and Bellarmine get married?
Chapter 7
28. Of what thing and why Adams is getting much ahead?
29. What did Adams tells the man who he found? And who was that man?
30. Who deserve to be hanged according to the Patriot that Adams found?
31. What should be done with those people who don’t sacrifice their life’s?
Chapter8
32. Whom did Adams support in politics?
33. What did Fickle declared about colonel country?
34. Which post was offered by colonel to Adams?
35. How Sir Thomas won the elections?
Chapter9
36. What does the gentleman talk about and what does he hoped for?
37. Why does he offer Adams to come to his place?
38. What did Adams and the gentleman hear?
39. How do they both reacted after hearing the shriek?
40. How did Adams help the woman?
41. How did the woman get in trouble?
Chapter10
42. Who found the woman and her rescouners?
43. Who was the woman?
44. How does Fanny deny her passion for Parson Adams?
Chapter11
45. Who was presented before the justice?
46. Where were the prisoners kept?
47. Who was recognized first?
48. What did Fanny see at the inn?
Chapter 12
49. Describes Fanny`s appearance?
50. How does Fanny and Joseph met?

6. Chapter13
51. What are the social conditions of 18th century given in this chapter?
52. What was the main decision taken by Fanny in Chapter 13?
53. Why Adams suggested Joseph to wait for marriage?
54. What Joseph, Fanny and Adams found when they decided to set out on foot?
55. What was the news brought by the coachman?
Chapter14
56. What kind of person Mr Truliber was?
57. How he(Mr Trulliber) behaved when Adams asked for some money?
Chapter15
58. Who came under the wrong impression of Joseph?
59. What was left behind by Joseph at the Inn?
60. What was offered by the mistress?
Chapter16
61. How the squire man deceives Adams and party?
Chapter17
62. What did the host narrated to Parson Adams?
63. What is the result of false promises made by the Squire?
64. What did the host said to Parson Adams?
65. What did the debate led to?
66. Who returned when the debate led to dispute?
Book3: Chapter1
1. What is the purpose of the novel Henry Fielding explained again?
2. What did Joseph Andrews support and whose example did he give?
3. What was given by Mrs Wilson to the travellers?
4. Which writing`s example is given in this chapter?
5. What are the differences mentioned by Henry Fielding between the romantic and the
biographical writers?
6. Why does Fielding believe in showing the truth?
Chapter2
7. How many of them had left the inn rather late?
8. Who was feeling tired?
9. What did they heard when they came near to light`s?
10. What was Joseph`s advice?

7. 11. What they were given to drink?
Chater3
12. Who relates his life story in this chapter?
13. What was the age of Mr Wilson when his father died?
14. What was Mr Wilson age when he let for London?
15. How many pounds he had in his pocket when he went to London?
16. According to Wilson, what was his worst crime?
17. What Mr Wilson did to divert himself?
18. From whom Mr Wilson received the letter?
19. Who bought the lottery ticket?
20. When Harriet Hearty`s father died?
21. How many pounds Harriet Hearty had enclosed in her letter?
22. When Mr Wilson and Harriet Hearty acknowledge their love for each other?
23. To whom Mr Wilson got married?
24. How many children they (Wilson and Harriet Hearty) had?
25. When eldest child was stolen by gypsies
Chapter4
26. How did Adams comfort Wilson about his stolen child?
27. What kind of identity mark Wilson told about his stolen child?
28. Which thing amazed Mr Wilson?
29. What mishap occurred at Mr Wilson`s place?
Chapter5
30. What is the difference between private and public schooling?
31. What did joseph discovered?
32. Who studied in public school?
Chapter6
33. Who was eager to save the hare?
34. What was the reaction of master of hounds when they attacked Mr Adams?
35. Who saved Adams from hounds and how?
Chapter7
36. Who is the squired mentioned in this chapter?
37. What was squire`s plan?
38. In what Adams fall?
Chapter8
39. What was the order of squire to all the people?

8. 40. At what distance the inn was situated?
41. What did the Roman Priest confess?
42. What did Adams discover when Roman Priest requested him for money?
Chapter9
43. Why were the hunters servant searching for the three thieves?
44. How Joseph wake up early in the morning?
45. What reason did they tell about Fanny?
46. Who were the people looking for the three?
47. What was hidden reason for that?
Chapter10
48. What was the response of player when poet asked him to repeat the tender speech
from the third act of his play?
49. Where were the poet and player present?
50. Why did the poet say that they didn`t have good plays any longer?
Chapter11
51. How did Joseph react after he regained his consciousness?
52. How Adams managed to comfort Joseph?
53. What type of Adams predicted?
Chapter12
54. What did Fanny and Captain argue about?
55. What did captain tell to the Horseman?
56. Who was in the carriage?
57. Who set the captain free?
Chapter13
58. What was the topic of discussion between Peter pounce and Parson Adams?
59. What was the opinion of Peter pounce about charity?
60. What was the opinion of Adams about charity?
61. Which money Peter pounce had?
62. What Adams forgot in the carriage?
BOOK4: Chapter1
1. What was the decision of Lady Booby about Joseph?
2. Who announced the marriage between Joseph and Lady Booby?
3. What was the discussion between Lady Booby and Slipslop about Joseph?
4. Why Lady Booby became angry?
5. What is the significance of this chapter?

9. Chapter2
6. What did the lawyer scout, tell Mr Adams?
7. Why was Lady Booby not happy from Adams?
8. How Parson Adams convinced Lady Booby when she showed angriness?
9. What information was given by Lawyer Scout to Parson Adams?
10. How Henry Fielding describes the innocence of Parson Adams?
Chapter3
11. Who did Lady Booby summon?
12. What did Lady Booby ask the lawyer to do?
13. What did the lawyer replied to Lady Booby?
14. Whose help Lady Booby wanted to take?
15. What lie lawyer tell to Lady Booby?
16. What was the dialogue between Lady Booby and the lawyer?
17. What was the plan of Lady Booby?
18. What did the lawyer do with Adams?
Chapter4
19. How did Lady Booby receive Pamela and her husband?
20. On which day Lady Booby goes to the church?
21. Which news Mrs Slipslop tells Lady Booby?
22. Who met Lady Booby when she came back from the church?
23. Why Lady Booby was puzzled?
24. Who is squire Booby?
25. What did Lady Booby said about Joseph`s youth?
Chapter5
26. What was the charge on Joseph Andrews?
27. What was the punishment of Joseph Andrews and Fanny?
28. What news made Lady Booby happy?
Chapter6
29. What did Slipslop advice her Mistress?
Chapter7
30. What does Fielding tell about a Lady`s love?
31. Why Pamela and Mr Booby dissuade Joseph Andrews?
32. What was the reason of Pamela and Mr Booby`s discussion?

10. Chapter8
33. What was the response of Parson Adams when Joseph Andrews asked for
marriage license?
34. What did Adams say about passions?
35. Who has drowned?
36. How was Adams youngest son rescued?
37. How did Adams respond on hearing the news about his son?
Chapter9
38. Who companied Lady Booby to the church?
39. Why Lady Booby took the Beau Didapper to the church?
40. Explain the physical description of Beau Didapper?
Chapter10
41. What did Paul discover/observe about nature of Leonard`s wife?
42. Which advice was given by Paul to Leonard and his wife?
Chapter11
43. Who tried to abduct Fanny?
44. Where did Joseph punched Beau Didapper?
43. How did Beau Didapper react on Joseph punch ?
44. What did Joseph do in response?
45. Who stopped them both(Joseph & Didapper) from fighting?
46. Why did Fanny cry in this chapter?
47. What Mrs Adams told her husband?
48. What did Mrs Adams want?
49. With whom Joseph appears?
50. What was the name of the alehouse?
Chapter12
51. What did Pedlar tells Adams?
52. How much Booby paid for Fanny?
53. Who was the Gypsy woman?
54. Who were the actual parents of Fanny?
Chapter13
55. Who visited Mr Adams?
56. What did Slipslop tell Lady Booby on her arrival?
57. Who was send to encourage Beau by Lady Booby?
58. Why did Lady Booby send Mrs Slipslop to Didapper?
59. What feeling Lady Booby felt?

11. 60. What did Pamela says on the news that she, Joseph and fanny are siblings?
61. To whom Lady Booby shared the news of Joseph and Fanny?
62. Who come along with Pedlar?
63. Whom did pedlar come in with?
64. Whose arrival Mr Booby was waiting for?
65. What does Lady Booby do after visiting Parson Adams house?
Chapter14
66. What was the plan of Beau Didapper?
67. What mistake Beau Didapper made?
68. How Parson Adams awoke?
69. By whom Mrs Slipslop and Adams were interrupted?
70. What did Lady Booby noticed?
71. What wrong turn did Adams took?
Chapter15
72. What did Mr Adams denied?
73. What did Mrs Adams explained?
74. How everybody comes to know Joseph`s identity?
Chapter16
75. How much money did Mr Booby gave to Adams every year?
76. What did Lady Booby do to get over her excitement?
77. What did Joseph do with the dowry given by Mr Booby?