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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What problem does Moll have getting the money her old nurse had saved for her?
(a) after the nurse dies, her daughter does not want to give it.
(b) Moll cannot leave the house where she works and lives.
(c) the magistrates want reembursement for their expenses.
(d) the nurse left no written instructions about the money.

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

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

5. What does the narrator say about the final scene in the story?
(a) it makes the reader shed tears.
(b) it is Moll's best writing.
(c) it is still an unfinished work.
(d) it is not written by Moll herself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator say that the ugly and wicked part of a person's life must be presented?

3. What does the narrator insist is the value of the story?

4. How old is Moll when she is taken in by a kind woman?

5. What does the sister tell her brother now recommends a woman to a gentleman?

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