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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Betty Flanders goes to live with another widow?
(a) she meets all kinds of rich, available men.
(b) the widow turns her in to the police.
(c) the widow finds a rich man and marries.
(d) the widwo dies and leaves her house to Mrs. Flanders.

2. What causes Moll not to go to the older brother's wedding?
(a) she has to look after her ten children.
(b) she is not invited to the wedding.
(c) seeing another woman marry the man she loves.
(d) she is eight months pregnant.

3. 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 married already.
(d) that she is poor.

4. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?
(a) real people.
(b) destroyed.
(c) penitent.
(d) hardened criminals.

5. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?
(a) the excitement of the story.
(b) the salaciousness of the story.
(c) the moral of the story.
(d) the truth of the story.

6. Who does Moll meet at Bath?
(a) an other draper.
(b) a handsome rogue.
(c) an old friend from the Mint.
(d) a gentleman down from London.

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

8. 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 make the story more interesting to readers.
(c) to warn people about living such a life.
(d) to show the beauty of penitence may be appreciated.

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

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

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

12. What does Moll persuade the mistress to allow her to do?
(a) find a husband.
(b) live in her house.
(c) run away.
(d) go to school.

13. How does Moll propose to make her own living?
(a) by sewing and spinning.
(b) by dancing and singing.
(c) by begging on the streets.
(d) by selling violets.

14. What does the new mistress lack that the former one had?
(a) money.
(b) honesty.
(c) family.
(d) fine clothes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?

2. To what does the narrator compare his novel?

3. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?

4. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?

5. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?

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