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

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 lack of interest.
(c) because of dull lives.
(d) because of romances and novels.

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

3. What does the younger brother protest about with his sister?
(a) that he is looking for a woman without money.
(b) that he is not interested in money.
(c) that he will never marry an woman.
(d) that he always has to take his brother's left overs.

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. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?
(a) by hiding herself.
(b) by finding her mother.
(c) by running to a policeman.
(d) by being sold by the gypsies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?

2. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?

3. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?

4. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?

5. How does Moll propose to make her own living?

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