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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 persuade the mistress to allow her to do?
(a) live in her house.
(b) run away.
(c) find a husband.
(d) go to school.

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

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 make the story more interesting to readers.
(c) to warn people about living such a life.
(d) to show the beauty of penitence may be appreciated.

4. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?
(a) some of the more vicious parts.
(b) some of the duplicate parts.
(c) some of the most boring parts.
(d) some of the least colorful parts.

5. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?
(a) Moll Flanders' mother.
(b) a British journalist.
(c) Daniel DeFoe.
(d) Moll Flanders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?

3. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?

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

5. What does the narrator say is the value of hard work as a convict?

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