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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. When does Moll realize the older brother only wants her as a mistress?
(a) when he stops talking about love and marriage.
(b) when he gives her £1000 to leave town..
(c) when he gives her 100 guineas and a promise for that much each year.
(d) when he tells her he is engaged to another lady.

2. What is Moll's first recollection?
(a) leaving Newgate prison.
(b) being hungry on the street.
(c) being among the gypsies.
(d) learning how to sew.

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

4. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?
(a) the older brother.
(b) the parish priest.
(c) his mother.
(d) his sisters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the weather during Moll's trip back to England from Virginia?

2. Where does Moll go to dress in back as a widow and call herself Mrs. Flanders?

3. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?

4. How old is Moll when she is taken in by a kind woman?

5. What does the younger brother want to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the editor claim about Moll's new life in the American colonies?

9. How does the editor compare the novel to dramatic plays of the day?

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

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