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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Moll persuade the mistress to allow her to do?
(a) run away.
(b) find a husband.
(c) go to school.
(d) live in her house.

4. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?
(a) an unhappy end.
(b) a lesson for the readers.
(c) an argument for clean living.
(d) a means to get away.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?

3. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?

4. What does Mrs. Mayoress call Moll that she thinks is a bad name?

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

(see the answer key)

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