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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sister tell her brother now recommends a woman to a gentleman?
(a) being well educated.
(b) nothing but money.
(c) having a sponsor.
(d) only exceptional looks.

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

3. What shows the other brother's intentions that Moll does not understand?
(a) he gives her money.
(b) he takes her out of the house.
(c) he kisses her and runs away.
(d) he proposes marriage.

4. How old is Moll when she is taken in by a kind woman?
(a) not above three-years-old.
(b) just turning twelve.
(c) just a baby.
(d) only one year old.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?
(a) Whether the story takes place in England or America.
(b) Whether the story is true or fiction.
(c) Whether the narrator is Moll or not.
(d) Whether Moll Flanders is good or bad.

11. 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 nurse left no written instructions about the money.
(d) the magistrates want reembursement for their expenses.

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

13. What does the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?
(a) she pretends to be.
(b) she does not know the meaning of the word.
(c) she is heartily sorry for her sins.
(d) she never thinks she has done wrong.

14. What does Moll want to become?
(a) a dancer.
(b) a wife and mother.
(c) a singer.
(d) a gentlewoman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Moll and the young woman next door get even with the young captain?

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

3. How does the landlady get the gentleman to offer money to Moll?

4. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?

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

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