Moll Flanders | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Preface:

1. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?

Whether the story is true or fiction.

2. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?

Daniel DeFoe.

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

more modest words.

4. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?

some of the more vicious parts.

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

sudden surprises of every sort.

6. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?

penitent.

7. What type of instruction does the narrator say is included in the story?

how to avoid thieves and pickpockets.

8. What does the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?

she pretends to be.

9. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story...
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