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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 Moll Flanders is good or bad.
(b) Whether the story takes place in England or America.
(c) Whether the story is true or fiction.
(d) Whether the narrator is Moll or not.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Moll persuade the mistress to allow her to do?

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

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

5. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?

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