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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) she is eight months pregnant.
(d) seeing another woman marry the man she loves.

3. 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.

4. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?
(a) a lesson for the readers.
(b) an argument for clean living.
(c) a means to get away.
(d) an unhappy end.

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

6. Where does Moll learn that men find a mistress sometimes, but very rarely look for a wife?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Paris.
(d) Bath.

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

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

9. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?
(a) sudden surprises of every sort.
(b) sudden shifts of the story line.
(c) sudden lapses in Mill's memory.
(d) sudden changes in location.

10. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?
(a) that she demands a diamond ring.
(b) that she is poor.
(c) that she is married already.
(d) that she has six children.

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

12. What has Moll heard about the gentleman she is considering marriage to?
(a) that he is wanted by the police.
(b) that he owns a mill in Ireland.
(c) that he buys and sells slaves.
(d) that he has a plantation in Virginia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?

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

3. Why does the narrator say that the ugly and wicked part of a person's life must be presented?

4. What does the gentleman at Bath give Moll?

5. What does Moll persuade the mistress to allow her to do?

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