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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 always has to take his brother's left overs.
(d) that he will never marry an woman.

3. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?
(a) an argument for clean living.
(b) a means to get away.
(c) a lesson for the readers.
(d) an unhappy end.

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

5. What does her tradesman turn out to be?
(a) a con man who only wanted Moll's money.
(b) a bigamist.
(c) rake, shopkeeper and beggar all in one.
(d) a hardened criminal .

6. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?
(a) that she has six children.
(b) that she demands a diamond ring.
(c) that she is poor.
(d) that she is married already.

7. Moving in with a friend, what does Moll come to be called?
(a) pretty whore.
(b) pretty pickpocket.
(c) pretty spinster.
(d) pretty widow.

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

9. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?
(a) she was pregnant with Moll.
(b) she escaped and fled to virginia.
(c) she turned state's evidence.
(d) she became the mistress of the warden.

10. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?
(a) a British journalist.
(b) Moll Flanders' mother.
(c) Daniel DeFoe.
(d) Moll Flanders.

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

12. What does Moll suspect about her landlady and the gentleman?
(a) that the landlady and he are having an affair.
(b) that the landlady does not know what is going on.
(c) that the landlady is being bribed by the gentleman.
(d) that the landlady is encouraging him to notice Moll.

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

14. Where does Moll say her true name is known?
(a) in Virginia.
(b) in Newgate and the Old Bailey.
(c) in the Mint.
(d) in her small circle of friends.

15. Why does Moll go to the aid of the young woman next door to her?
(a) her beau left her because she checked up on his character.
(b) her beau had left her bacause he had many others.
(c) her beau had left her when she gave him no money.
(d) her beau had left her after she became pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After her son is born, where does the gentleman arrange apartments for Moll?

3. Where does Moll go to dress in back as a widow and call herself Mrs. Flanders?

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

5. What can Moll not consider doing?

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