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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-15:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?
(a) that the author has to keep his chronology straight.
(b) that readers may question how the author knows about crime.
(c) that the writer may become terribly depressed.
(d) that vicious readers may turn it to the author's disadvantage.

2. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?
(a) an argument for clean living.
(b) an unhappy end.
(c) a means to get away.
(d) a lesson for the readers.

3. Why does the narrator say that the ugly and wicked part of a person's life must be presented?
(a) to show the reasons penitence is needed.
(b) to warn people about living such a life.
(c) to show the beauty of penitence may be appreciated.
(d) to make the story more interesting to readers.

4. What does the narrator say about the final scene in the story?
(a) it is Moll's best writing.
(b) it is still an unfinished work.
(c) it makes the reader shed tears.
(d) it is not written by Moll herself.

5. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?
(a) hardened criminals.
(b) destroyed.
(c) real people.
(d) penitent.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?

2. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?

3. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?

4. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?

5. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?

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