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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 the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?
(a) Whether the narrator is Moll or not.
(b) Whether the story takes place in England or America.
(c) Whether the story is true or fiction.
(d) Whether Moll Flanders is good or bad.

2. Why does Mrs. Mayoress say Moll may become a gentlewoman for all they know?
(a) she speaks with proper English.
(b) she is very lovely.
(c) she has a gentlewoman's air about her.
(d) she has a gentlewoman's hands.

3. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?
(a) by being sold by the gypsies.
(b) by finding her mother.
(c) by hiding herself.
(d) by running to a policeman.

4. What type of instruction does the narrator say is included in the story?
(a) how to steal without getting caught.
(b) how to avoid thieves and pickpockets.
(c) how to tell when someone is lying.
(d) how to escakpe from prison.

5. What problem does Moll have getting the money her old nurse had saved for her?
(a) Moll cannot leave the house where she works and lives.
(b) after the nurse dies, her daughter does not want to give it.
(c) the magistrates want reembursement for their expenses.
(d) the nurse left no written instructions about the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll want to become?

2. What does the narrator admit about the text?

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

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

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

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