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

2. What does the narrator insist is the value of the story?
(a) that it will teach child rearing to new parents.
(b) that something just or religious may be learned.
(c) that it will put the reader to sleep.
(d) that it opens up a new kind of literature.

3. What happens to the gentleman at Bath?
(a) he becomes ill.
(b) he leaves in the middle of the night.
(c) he is arrested for theft.
(d) he is visited by his wife.

4. What do the ladies of the town do for Moll?
(a) petition the mayor.
(b) keep her hidden from the police.
(c) send her to school in London.
(d) give her money and clothes.

5. 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. What does the gentleman at Bath give Moll?

2. After the gentleman lover nearly dies, what happens to him?

3. What type of instruction does the narrator say is included in the story?

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

5. Why does Moll go to the aid of the young woman next door to her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the preface to Moll Flanders?

2. What does Moll know about her mother?

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

4. How does the novel begin?

5. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

6. What excuse does the older brother give for not marrying Moll right away?

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

8. What happens when Moll is only 14-years-old?

9. What is Moll's experience with her second husband?

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

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