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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 the narrator insist is the value of the story?
(a) that it opens up a new kind of literature.
(b) that it will teach child rearing to new parents.
(c) that it will put the reader to sleep.
(d) that something just or religious may be learned.

2. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?
(a) she was pregnant with Moll.
(b) she escaped and fled to virginia.
(c) she became the mistress of the warden.
(d) she turned state's evidence.

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

4. How does the elder brother begin his chase of Moll?
(a) buying her expensive gifts.
(b) slipping into her room at night.
(c) talking about her to his sisters.
(d) flirting with her in front of his mother.

5. To what does the narrator compare his novel?
(a) to plays written for the stage.
(b) to religious pamphlets.
(c) to school lessons.
(d) to narrative poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shows the other brother's intentions that Moll does not understand?

2. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?

3. Why does the narrator say that the ugly and wicked part of a person's life must be presented?

4. What does Mrs. Mayoress call Moll that she thinks is a bad name?

5. How does the captain's lady help repay Moll for her services?

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