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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 became the mistress of the warden.
(b) she turned state's evidence.
(c) she escaped and fled to virginia.
(d) she was pregnant with Moll.

2. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?
(a) the truth of the story.
(b) the moral of the story.
(c) the excitement of the story.
(d) the salaciousness of the story.

3. What does the narrator admit about the text?
(a) that it is totally fiction.
(b) that it is difficult to follow.
(c) that it is just as written in a diary.
(d) that it has been put into new words.

4. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?
(a) as proper as church ladies.
(b) as brave as soldiers.
(c) as nervous as cats.
(d) as wicked as they pleased.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Moll and the young woman next door get even with the young captain?

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

3. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?

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

5. When does Moll realize the older brother only wants her as a mistress?

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