Fantomina Quizzes

Fantomina Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene of the novel take place?
At the ballet

At an expensive restaurant

At the opera

At a playhouse
2 What detail is noted about where Fantomina is sitting at the novel's opening?
In the front row

In a shadowy corner where her face is not fully visible

In front of an open window

In a box, or private compartment
3 What attributes are first noted about Fantomina by the narrator?
Her birth, beauty, wit, and spirit

Her shy manner and deep piety

Her long dark hair and brilliant blue eyes

Her extravagant dress and many jewels
4 Who catches Fantomina's eye during the novel's first scene?
A woman whose face is entirely veiled and hidden from view

A much older woman who still manages to be very attractive and charismatic

A woman trying to show off her attractive young daughter

A woman who is receiving the attention of many men
5 What is easily determined about the woman who Fantomina becomes interested in?
That she is a prostitute

That she is a nun

That she has not received any education

That she has royal blood
6 What reason is given in the opening scene for why Fantomina is more innocent than many of the other women around her?
She was educated by nuns in a convent

She has grown up in the country and not spent much time in an urban environment

She tends to daydream, be lost in her own world, and not notice what is happening around her

She has very strict and overprotective parents
7 After observing the woman who caught her attention, what idea occurs to Fantomina?
To become a nun

To marry the wealthiest man she can find

To take lovers and become more sexually experienced

To dress up like a prostitute
8 What is, according to the narrator, her motivation for this idea?
Innocent curiosity

The first stirrings of sexual desire

A deep sense of shame and repentance

Greed
9 What are the circumstances that might have created an obstable to her plan, but do not exist in Fantomina's case?
A strict husband

A trusted friend and confidante who could explain the error of her idea

Someone living in the city who is responsible for her behaviour and to whom she is accountable

A more serious disposition and reflective temperament
10 When does Fantomina reappear after putting her plan into action?
Two weeks later

The next night

One week later

Six months later
11 How has she ensured that she will not be recognized while she implements her plan?
She adopts a fake accent

She loses a great deal of weight

She covers her face with fabric

She dyes her hair
12 When Fantomina returns in disguise, what is different about the way she is treated?
She is taken much more seriously, and people ask her opinions about politics and current events

She receives a lot of attention and compliments from men

She is now considered lower-class and treated rudely by wealthier women

She is mocked and laughed at
13 Who is the man who Fantomina finds herself drawn to on the first night she appears in disguise?
Beauaimant

Beauregard

Beauplaisir

Beaucoeur
14 Which of the following best characterizes her previous interactions with this man?
She has watched him seduce and abandon her closest friend

They have slept together several times

She has never seen him before

She has met him before and felt attracted to him
15 Whom does he think that Fantomina resembles?
Her true self

The princess

His old childhood sweetheart

A very well-known prostitute
16 What does he notice as they begin to converse?
That she is better educated and more refined than he would have expected

That she keeps touching him flirtatiously

That she seems very shy and uncomfortable

That she has a strong foreign accent
17 What problem arises for Fantomina after she has spent some time talking with Beauplaisir?
He expects her to go somewhere and have sex with him

He proposes marriage to her

He starts to lose interest

He insists on buying her an expensive gift even though she knows he is in debt
18 What possibility does Fantomina consider in order to resolve this problem?
Telling him who she truly is

Telling him she has taken a vow of celibacy

Telling him she is already married

Secretly sneaking away so that he won't know she has left.
19 What does she actually do in order to resolve the problem?
She introduces him to another woman as a distraction

She gives him a fake address to meet her at

She hires a man to pretend to be her jealous husband

She tells him that she has already has an engagement with another client that night
20 What does Beauplaisir ask of her?
That she take a ring from him as a promise of his fidelity

That she return to the same place the following night to meet with him

That she run away with him that very night

That she stop seeing all other men
21 Where does Beauplaisir go after the two part ways?
To find a prostitute

To meet his friends and talk about the woman he has just met

To the tavern

To hire a detective to follow Fantomina and determine her true identity
22 How does Fantomina make her way home?
On horseback

In a carried chair

On foot

By boat
23 What emotions does Fantomina experience as she thinks about the events of the night?
Regret that she has started her relationship with Beauplaisir under the shadow of a lie

Anger and frustration that men were more attracted to her when she was in disguise

Shame and embarassment for having been so bold and assertive

A strong desire to see Beauplaisir again
24 What action does Fantomina take the next day?
She writes a long letter to her parents

She withdraws a large sum of money from her bank

She rents rooms in a house close to the theatre

She buys herself a revealing new dress
25 What does she hope this action will achieve?
It will help her to attract additional suitors

It will create clues if she disappears

It will give her a place to bring Beaplaisir where she will have more agency and control

It will make Beauplaisir have more respect for her

What does "half-reluctant, half-yielding" body indicate?

In context, Fantomina is submissive yet unsure. She is not fully willing, but she is aroused.

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Discussions of gender are central to this eighteenth-century novel, as it is based primarily on the behavior of a male and a female. Fantomina manipulates what is expected of a woman: instead of exhibiting mildness and virtue, she instead exhibits...

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Relating to the text.

Disguise is not only a ‘Frolick’ in Haywood’s novella. It is a necessity for Fantomina to act freely in a male-dominated society. The protagonist becomes four different women through the medium of disguise: Fantomina, The Servant Girl, The Widow,...

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Fantomina

by Eliza Haywood

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