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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 tell the reader to expect in the story?
(a) sudden changes in location.
(b) sudden lapses in Mill's memory.
(c) sudden shifts of the story line.
(d) sudden surprises of every sort.

2. What does the narrator say is the value of hard work as a convict?
(a) coming out of it with a new cast for one's life.
(b) learning how not to get caught.
(c) keeping healthy until released.
(d) staying out of more trouble.

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

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

5. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?
(a) a British journalist.
(b) Daniel DeFoe.
(c) Moll Flanders.
(d) Moll Flanders' mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of instruction does the narrator say is included in the story?

2. What does the narrator say about the final scene in the story?

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

4. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?

5. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?

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