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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-15:.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 vicious readers may turn it to the author's disadvantage.
(c) that readers may question how the author knows about crime.
(d) that the author has to keep his chronology straight.

3. What does Moll want to become?
(a) a gentlewoman.
(b) a dancer.
(c) a singer.
(d) a wife and mother.

4. What does Mrs. Mayoress call Moll that she thinks is a bad name?
(a) Mademoiselle.
(b) Child.
(c) Urchin.
(d) Miss.

5. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?
(a) to find a new slave.
(b) to look for the little gentlewoman.
(c) to order a new dress.
(d) to have some garments mended.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?

3. What problem does Moll have getting the money her old nurse had saved for her?

4. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?

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

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