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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 the captain's lady help repay Moll for her services?
(a) by making Moll her secretary.
(b) by giving her some money.
(c) by inviting other ship's captains to her home.
(d) by helping her rumored to be a wealthy widow.

2. When Moll's resolution breaks and she gives him permission to make love to her, how does she classify herself?
(a) as a fiancée.
(b) as a whore.
(c) as a defiled woman.
(d) as an innocent.

3. To what does the narrator compare his novel?
(a) to school lessons.
(b) to narrative poems.
(c) to religious pamphlets.
(d) to plays written for the stage.

4. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?
(a) that readers may question how the author knows about crime.
(b) that vicious readers may turn it to the author's disadvantage.
(c) that the author has to keep his chronology straight.
(d) that the writer may become terribly depressed.

5. How does the landlady get the gentleman to offer money to Moll?
(a) by raising his rent at her house.
(b) by asking him for money to give to Moll.
(c) by saying that Moll doubts that he has money.
(d) by telling a lie about her lost shpment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?

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

3. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?

4. What do the ladies of the town do for Moll?

5. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?

(see the answer key)

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