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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 surprises of every sort.
(b) sudden lapses in Mill's memory.
(c) sudden changes in location.
(d) sudden shifts of the story line.

2. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?
(a) because she has a new family for Moll.
(b) because she has bad news.
(c) because she is not doing a good job.
(d) because she is always crying.

3. Where does Moll say her true name is known?
(a) in Newgate and the Old Bailey.
(b) in her small circle of friends.
(c) in the Mint.
(d) in Virginia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is Moll born?

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

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