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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 an innocent.
(d) as a defiled woman.

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

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

5. What happens with the younger brother?
(a) he blackmails Mrs. Betty and his brother.
(b) he falls truly in love with Mrs. Betty.
(c) he wants Betty for a mistress.
(d) he spies of Betty when she leaves the house.

6. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?
(a) some of the least colorful parts.
(b) some of the more vicious parts.
(c) some of the duplicate parts.
(d) some of the most boring parts.

7. What problem does Moll have getting the money her old nurse had saved for her?
(a) Moll cannot leave the house where she works and lives.
(b) after the nurse dies, her daughter does not want to give it.
(c) the magistrates want reembursement for their expenses.
(d) the nurse left no written instructions about the money.

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

9. 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 a family to adopt the child.
(d) arranging an abortion.

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

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

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

13. After the gentleman lover nearly dies, what happens to him?
(a) he is struck by remorse.
(b) he goes to France.
(c) he vows to find a new lover.
(d) he loses him membory of Moll.

14. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?
(a) because of romances and novels.
(b) because of dull lives.
(c) because of lack of interest.
(d) because of being published anonymously.

15. What does the younger brother protest about with his sister?
(a) that he will never marry an woman.
(b) that he is looking for a woman without money.
(c) that he always has to take his brother's left overs.
(d) that he is not interested in money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?

2. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?

3. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?

4. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?

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

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