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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?
(a) his mother.
(b) the older brother.
(c) his sisters.
(d) the parish priest.

2. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?
(a) she had longer hair than most girls.
(b) she is a great beauty.
(c) she has superior intelligence.
(d) she wears clothes well.

3. 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.

4. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?
(a) more graphic detail.
(b) more modest words.
(c) more stress on the law.
(d) more historical references.

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. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?

2. What does the new mistress lack that the former one had?

3. Where is Moll born?

4. What does the younger brother retort to his sister's talk about money?

5. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?

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