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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 83-99:.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 it will put the reader to sleep.
(d) that something just or religious may be learned.

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

4. How does the landlady help out when Moll becomes pregnant?
(a) arranging a family to adopt the child.
(b) arranging an abortion.
(c) bribing the parish officials.
(d) vouches that Moll is married to a worthy gentleman.

5. What does the gentleman at Bath give Moll?
(a) a letter of credit.
(b) a diamond ring.
(c) a cheque for £1,000.
(d) a small drawer full of gold coins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Moll get one last £50 from her brother/husband in Virginia?

3. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?

4. Where does Moll learn that men find a mistress sometimes, but very rarely look for a wife?

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

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