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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moll propose to make her own living?
(a) by selling violets.
(b) by dancing and singing.
(c) by begging on the streets.
(d) by sewing and spinning.

2. What is the condition under which Moll goes to a new house?
(a) a two-week trial period.
(b) making dresses for the daughters.
(c) staying away from the sons.
(d) an agreement to remain unseen.

3. Where is Moll born?
(a) in a barn.
(b) in her grandmother's house.
(c) in prison.
(d) in a hospital.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?

2. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?

3. What does the narrator admit about the text?

4. Where does Moll say her true name is known?

5. What is the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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