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

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

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

4. Why does she use the name of Moll Flanders?
(a) she read it in a newspaper.
(b) most people know that alias.
(c) her nurse gave the name to her.
(d) she likes the sound of it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the new mistress lack that the former one had?

2. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?

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

4. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?

5. What does the younger brother protest about with his sister?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

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

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

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

7. How does Moll protest the older brother's suggestion?

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

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

10. What does Moll learn about the Men who visit Bath during the summer season?

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