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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?
(a) most people know that alias.
(b) she likes the sound of it.
(c) her nurse gave the name to her.
(d) she read it in a newspaper.

2. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?
(a) more modest words.
(b) more historical references.
(c) more stress on the law.
(d) more graphic detail.

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

4. How does Moll talk about their next encounter?
(a) she says he smuggled her into his room and locked the door.
(b) she says he gave her £1000.
(c) she says he paid her to disrobe for him to see.
(d) she says he went farther than decency allows her to recount.

5. What does Moll say marriages are the consequences of in the country?
(a) religion.
(b) shotguns.
(c) politics.
(d) pregnancies.

6. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?
(a) because she has a new family for Moll.
(b) because she is not doing a good job.
(c) because she is always crying.
(d) because she has bad news.

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

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

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

10. What happens to her draper husband?
(a) he is sent in servictude to Australia.
(b) he escapes and goes to America.
(c) he is hanged in Newgate Prison.
(d) he escapes jail and goes to France.

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

12. What does the sister tell her older brother about having money but not great beauty when looking for a husband?
(a) her money is invested well.
(b) the first will do without the last.
(c) with money she can buy beauty.
(d) a beautiful girl cannot buy money.

13. Who does the young lady get to start the rumor that Moll is rich?
(a) her young captain husband.
(b) the women in the shops.
(c) the newspapers.
(d) the inn keepers in the area.

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

15. How does the elder brother begin his chase of Moll?
(a) buying her expensive gifts.
(b) talking about her to his sisters.
(c) flirting with her in front of his mother.
(d) slipping into her room at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll finally find?

2. When does Moll realize the older brother only wants her as a mistress?

3. What has Moll heard about the gentleman she is considering marriage to?

4. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?

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

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