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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 is Moll's first recollection?
(a) leaving Newgate prison.
(b) being hungry on the street.
(c) learning how to sew.
(d) being among the gypsies.

2. How do Moll and the young woman next door get even with the young captain?
(a) by fooling him into marrying a shrew.
(b) by picketing his house.
(c) by sinking his ship.
(d) by destroying his reputation.

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

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. What does Moll discover about her husband in Virginia?
(a) that he has black misstresses.
(b) that he does not own a plantation.
(c) that he is dying of consumption.
(d) that he is actually her brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?

2. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?

3. Where does Moll say her true name is known?

4. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?

5. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?

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