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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Moll go to dress in back as a widow and call herself Mrs. Flanders?
(a) the Mint.
(b) London.
(c) the bank.
(d) Ireland.

2. What can Moll not consider doing?
(a) running away from both brothers.
(b) marry one brother and be the mistress of the other.
(c) marry for money.
(d) marry a man she does not love.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?

2. What does the sister tell her older brother about having money but not great beauty when looking for a husband?

3. What does the narrator insist is the value of the story?

4. What does the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?

5. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Moll's life like at first in Virginia?

2. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

3. What apology does the editor make about the content of the book?

4. What is Defoe's stated purpose in presenting this book?

5. How does Moll become closely involved with a wealthy man in Bath?

6. As a child what does Moll want that amuses the Mayor's wife and her Nurse?

7. What is the final payoff and the conditions to Moll to release the gentleman to whom she had been mistress?

8. What happens to Moll's heart when the older brother takes an interest in her?

9. What is the complication that arises in the new family where Moll lives?

10. After some repentance for their sleeping together, what do Moll and the gentleman do?

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