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

2. Why does Mrs. Mayoress say Moll may become a gentlewoman for all they know?
(a) she speaks with proper English.
(b) she has a gentlewoman's hands.
(c) she is very lovely.
(d) she has a gentlewoman's air about her.

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

4. What does the narrator say is the value of hard work as a convict?
(a) keeping healthy until released.
(b) coming out of it with a new cast for one's life.
(c) learning how not to get caught.
(d) staying out of more trouble.

5. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?
(a) sing.
(b) speak German.
(c) write.
(d) cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Moll heard about the gentleman she is considering marriage to?

2. What does Moll say that women of her time had lost?

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

4. To what does the narrator compare his novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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