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

2. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?
(a) destroyed.
(b) hardened criminals.
(c) penitent.
(d) real people.

3. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?
(a) age twelve.
(b) age six.
(c) age ten.
(d) age eight.

4. Where is Moll born?
(a) in a barn.
(b) in prison.
(c) in her grandmother's house.
(d) in a hospital.

5. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?
(a) to order a new dress.
(b) to look for the little gentlewoman.
(c) to find a new slave.
(d) to have some garments mended.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?

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

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

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