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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 does the younger brother want to do?
(a) set Betty up in an apartment.
(b) kill his brother.
(c) marry Betty.
(d) sleep in Betty's bed.

2. What can Moll not consider doing?
(a) marry one brother and be the mistress of the other.
(b) marry for money.
(c) running away from both brothers.
(d) marry a man she does not love.

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

4. Where is Moll born?
(a) in a barn.
(b) in a hospital.
(c) in her grandmother's house.
(d) in prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?

2. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?

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

4. To what does the narrator compare his novel?

5. What is the condition under which Moll goes to a new house?

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