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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?
(a) her nurse gave the name to her.
(b) she likes the sound of it.
(c) most people know that alias.
(d) she read it in a newspaper.

2. How does Moll propose to make her own living?
(a) by sewing and spinning.
(b) by selling violets.
(c) by begging on the streets.
(d) by dancing and singing.

3. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?
(a) more graphic detail.
(b) more historical references.
(c) more modest words.
(d) more stress on the law.

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

5. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?
(a) because of dull lives.
(b) because of romances and novels.
(c) because of lack of interest.
(d) because of being published anonymously.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator admit about the text?

3. Why does Mrs. Mayoress say Moll may become a gentlewoman for all they know?

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

5. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?

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