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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 does the narrator insist is the value of the story?
(a) that it will teach child rearing to new parents.
(b) that it will put the reader to sleep.
(c) that something just or religious may be learned.
(d) that it opens up a new kind of literature.

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

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

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

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(c) more historical references.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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator admit about the text?

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

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

4. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?

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

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