Moll Flanders Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Moll Flanders Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?
(a) to find a new slave.
(b) to order a new dress.
(c) to look for the little gentlewoman.
(d) to have some garments mended.

3. Where does Moll go to dress in back as a widow and call herself Mrs. Flanders?
(a) London.
(b) the Mint.
(c) Ireland.
(d) the bank.

4. What is Moll looking for after the death of her first husband?
(a) a rich man to rob.
(b) a rich man to marry.
(c) a rich man to adopt her.
(d) a rich man to make her his mistress.

5. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?
(a) she has superior intelligence.
(b) she is a great beauty.
(c) she wears clothes well.
(d) she had longer hair than most girls.

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

7. What does Moll discover about her husband in Virginia?
(a) that he is actually her brother.
(b) that he has black misstresses.
(c) that he is dying of consumption.
(d) that he does not own a plantation.

8. Where does Moll take up residence after returning from Virginia?
(a) London.
(b) Bath.
(c) Bristol.
(d) the Mint.

9. Why does the narrator say that the ugly and wicked part of a person's life must be presented?
(a) to show the reasons penitence is needed.
(b) to warn people about living such a life.
(c) to make the story more interesting to readers.
(d) to show the beauty of penitence may be appreciated.

10. How does Moll get one last £50 from her brother/husband in Virginia?
(a) telling him it will keep her quiet.
(b) telling him she will go to Ireland.
(c) agreeing to sign a release.
(d) telling him the baby is ill.

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

12. What does Mill learn about her cargo from Virginia when she reaches London?
(a) her cargo was seized by the government.
(b) the ship lost most of its cargo.
(c) the ship was captured by pirates.
(d) the ship sank off the coast of Ireland.

13. 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.

14. What does the narrator admit about the text?
(a) that it is difficult to follow.
(b) that it is just as written in a diary.
(c) that it is totally fiction.
(d) that it has been put into new words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?

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

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

4. What does Moll say marriages are the consequences of in the country?

5. Knowing she cannot be the gentleman's wife, what does Moll do?

(see the answer keys)

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