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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 the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?
(a) she never thinks she has done wrong.
(b) she pretends to be.
(c) she is heartily sorry for her sins.
(d) she does not know the meaning of the word.

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

3. What does Mrs. Mayoress call Moll that she thinks is a bad name?
(a) Miss.
(b) Urchin.
(c) Mademoiselle.
(d) Child.

4. What does the landlady charge Moll for lodging during the winter at Bath?
(a) a few shillings.
(b) nothing.
(c) one pound.
(d) some bartered goods.

5. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?
(a) because she has a new family for Moll.
(b) because she has bad news.
(c) because she is always crying.
(d) because she is not doing a good job.

Short Answer Questions

1. After her son is born, where does the gentleman arrange apartments for Moll?

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

3. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?

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

5. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What solution do Moll and her husband-brother come up with to resolve the situation?

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

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

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

5. To Moll's chagrin, what does the older brother insist that she do?

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

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

8. How does the gentleman react when he learns of Moll's pregnancy?

9. Why does Moll put off the younger brother's proposal of marriage?

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

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