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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 47-83:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?
(a) that readers may question how the author knows about crime.
(b) that the writer may become terribly depressed.
(c) that vicious readers may turn it to the author's disadvantage.
(d) that the author has to keep his chronology straight.

2. What does the younger brother protest about with his sister?
(a) that he always has to take his brother's left overs.
(b) that he is looking for a woman without money.
(c) that he is not interested in money.
(d) that he will never marry an woman.

3. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?
(a) some of the more vicious parts.
(b) some of the duplicate parts.
(c) some of the most boring parts.
(d) some of the least colorful parts.

4. What does Moll want to become?
(a) a singer.
(b) a dancer.
(c) a gentlewoman.
(d) a wife and mother.

5. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?
(a) age eight.
(b) age twelve.
(c) age ten.
(d) age six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the value of hard work as a convict?

2. What happens when Betty Flanders goes to live with another widow?

3. What does the narrator say about the final scene in the story?

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

5. What is the condition under which Moll goes to a new house?

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