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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. How does Moll compare herself to the gentleman at Bath?
(a) that she is more helpless.
(b) that she is more innocent.
(c) that she is more wicked.
(d) that she is more noble.

2. What does Moll help the young woman next door do?
(a) find a new man.
(b) get a job as a governess.
(c) learn how to steal.
(d) get even with the unfair beau.

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

4. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?
(a) because of dull lives.
(b) because of being published anonymously.
(c) because of romances and novels.
(d) because of lack of interest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?

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

3. What happens to her draper husband?

4. What does the narrator admit about the text?

5. What has Moll heard about the gentleman she is considering marriage to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Under what condition does Moll arrive back in England.

4. As the story opens, why does the writer not reveal her real name?

5. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

6. What are the stories her mother-in-law tells that eventually reveal she was herself transported from Newgate prison to America?

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

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

9. Who takes Moll in after the death of the Nurse?

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

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