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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 47-83:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?
(a) she was pregnant with Moll.
(b) she turned state's evidence.
(c) she escaped and fled to virginia.
(d) she became the mistress of the warden.

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

3. How do Moll and the young woman next door get even with the young captain?
(a) by fooling him into marrying a shrew.
(b) by picketing his house.
(c) by destroying his reputation.
(d) by sinking his ship.

4. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?
(a) sudden shifts of the story line.
(b) sudden lapses in Mill's memory.
(c) sudden surprises of every sort.
(d) sudden changes in location.

5. What does the narrator insist is the value of the story?
(a) that it will teach child rearing to new parents.
(b) that it opens up a new kind of literature.
(c) that something just or religious may be learned.
(d) that it will put the reader to sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Moll's first recollection?

2. What happens with the younger brother?

3. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?

4. Other people call Moll a handsome woman. What does she say about that?

5. What does her tradesman turn out to be?

(see the answer key)

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