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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 15-47:.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Moll receive at the second home where she is kept?
(a) fire new garments.
(b) £100 a month.
(c) hard labor.
(d) education.

3. What does the sister tell her older brother about having money but not great beauty when looking for a husband?
(a) the first will do without the last.
(b) with money she can buy beauty.
(c) her money is invested well.
(d) a beautiful girl cannot buy money.

4. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?
(a) some of the least colorful parts.
(b) some of the most boring parts.
(c) some of the more vicious parts.
(d) some of the duplicate parts.

5. What causes Moll not to go to the older brother's wedding?
(a) seeing another woman marry the man she loves.
(b) she is eight months pregnant.
(c) she is not invited to the wedding.
(d) she has to look after her ten children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Moll talk about their next encounter?

3. What do the ladies of the town do for Moll?

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

5. What does the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?

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