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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 47-83:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moll say that women of her time had lost?
(a) the right to forego having children.
(b) the right to become wives.
(c) the right to say No.
(d) the right to stay single.

2. Why does Mrs. Mayoress say Moll may become a gentlewoman for all they know?
(a) she has a gentlewoman's air about her.
(b) she has a gentlewoman's hands.
(c) she is very lovely.
(d) she speaks with proper English.

3. What is Moll looking for after the death of her first husband?
(a) a rich man to adopt her.
(b) a rich man to marry.
(c) a rich man to rob.
(d) a rich man to make her his mistress.

4. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?
(a) because she is always crying.
(b) because she is not doing a good job.
(c) because she has bad news.
(d) because she has a new family for Moll.

5. When does Moll realize the older brother only wants her as a mistress?
(a) when he stops talking about love and marriage.
(b) when he gives her 100 guineas and a promise for that much each year.
(c) when he gives her £1000 to leave town..
(d) when he tells her he is engaged to another lady.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the final scene in the story?

2. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?

3. What is Moll's first recollection?

4. What does her tradesman turn out to be?

5. How does Moll talk about their next encounter?

(see the answer key)

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