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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 148-174:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the gentleman at Bath?
(a) he leaves in the middle of the night.
(b) he becomes ill.
(c) he is arrested for theft.
(d) he is visited by his wife.

2. What is Moll's first recollection?
(a) learning how to sew.
(b) leaving Newgate prison.
(c) being hungry on the street.
(d) being among the gypsies.

3. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?
(a) age six.
(b) age ten.
(c) age eight.
(d) age twelve.

4. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?
(a) Whether the story takes place in England or America.
(b) Whether the story is true or fiction.
(c) Whether the narrator is Moll or not.
(d) Whether Moll Flanders is good or bad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Moll and the young woman next door get even with the young captain?

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

3. How is Moll swept off her feet by an Irishman?

4. What is Moll's first theft?

5. Why do people suggest that Moll move out of St. John's Street?

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