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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 does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?
(a) destroyed.
(b) penitent.
(c) real people.
(d) hardened criminals.

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

3. Who does the young lady get to start the rumor that Moll is rich?
(a) her young captain husband.
(b) the women in the shops.
(c) the newspapers.
(d) the inn keepers in the area.

4. What does Moll say that women of her time had lost?
(a) the right to become wives.
(b) the right to say No.
(c) the right to stay single.
(d) the right to forego having children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the younger brother want to do?

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

3. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?

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

5. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?

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