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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-15:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the value of hard work as a convict?
(a) keeping healthy until released.
(b) coming out of it with a new cast for one's life.
(c) staying out of more trouble.
(d) learning how not to get caught.

2. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?
(a) Whether the story is true or fiction.
(b) Whether Moll Flanders is good or bad.
(c) Whether the narrator is Moll or not.
(d) Whether the story takes place in England or America.

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

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

5. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?
(a) more modest words.
(b) more historical references.
(c) more graphic detail.
(d) more stress on the law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the ladies of the town do for Moll?

3. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?

4. How does Moll propose to make her own living?

5. What type of instruction does the narrator say is included in the story?

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