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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator admit about the text?
(a) that it is just as written in a diary.
(b) that it is totally fiction.
(c) that it is difficult to follow.
(d) that it has been put into new words.

2. Who does the young lady get to start the rumor that Moll is rich?
(a) the inn keepers in the area.
(b) her young captain husband.
(c) the newspapers.
(d) the women in the shops.

3. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?
(a) Whether Moll Flanders is good or bad.
(b) Whether the story takes place in England or America.
(c) Whether the narrator is Moll or not.
(d) Whether the story is true or fiction.

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

5. How does Moll propose to make her own living?
(a) by dancing and singing.
(b) by selling violets.
(c) by sewing and spinning.
(d) by begging on the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landlady get the gentleman to offer money to Moll?

2. How old is Moll when she is taken in by a kind woman?

3. What happens to her draper husband?

4. What does Moll say marriages are the consequences of in the country?

5. What does the sister tell her brother now recommends a woman to a gentleman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moll know about her mother?

2. To Moll's chagrin, what does the older brother insist that she do?

3. How does Moll marry for the third time?

4. Why does Moll put off the younger brother's proposal of marriage?

5. What is Moll's experience with her second husband?

6. What are the stories her mother-in-law tells that eventually reveal she was herself transported from Newgate prison to America?

7. As a child what does Moll want that amuses the Mayor's wife and her Nurse?

8. What does Moll learn about the Men who visit Bath during the summer season?

9. What is Defoe's stated purpose in presenting this book?

10. Under what condition does Moll arrive back in England.

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