Tom Jones Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Tom Jones? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Regarding sex outside of marriage, who says: "can any carnal appetite so overpower your reason, or so totally lay it asleep, as to prevent your flying with affright and terror from a crime which carries such punishment always with it"?


Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Lady Bellaston
Squire Western
Squire Allworthy
Q. Which character shouts: "If you was to be made an honest woman, I should not be angry; but you must have to doing with a gentleman, you nasty slut; you will have a bastard, hussy, you will"?


Goody Seagrim, to Molly
Bridget Allworthy, to Jenny Jones
Mrs. Western, to Sophia
Squire Allworthy, to Tom Jones
Q. Which character complains that men are "always whipt in by the humours of some d—n'd b— or other"?


Squire Allworthy
Mr. Blifil
Squire Western
Mr. Thwackum
Q. Who tells Tom, "Me vil tell you […] how the difference is between you and us. My people rob your people, and your people rob one anoder"?


the Man of the Hill
the King of the Gypsies
the Merry-Andrew
the puppet-man
Q. Who describes the countryside as "the bane of all young women," where "they learn a set of romantic notions of love […] which this town and good company can scarce eradicate in a whole winter"?


Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Wilkins
Lady Bellaston
Sophia