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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 15-47:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story?
(a) sudden surprises of every sort.
(b) sudden lapses in Mill's memory.
(c) sudden changes in location.
(d) sudden shifts of the story line.

2. How does Moll talk about their next encounter?
(a) she says he paid her to disrobe for him to see.
(b) she says he went farther than decency allows her to recount.
(c) she says he gave her £1000.
(d) she says he smuggled her into his room and locked the door.

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

4. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?
(a) she had longer hair than most girls.
(b) she wears clothes well.
(c) she has superior intelligence.
(d) she is a great beauty.

5. To what does the narrator compare his novel?
(a) to religious pamphlets.
(b) to plays written for the stage.
(c) to narrative poems.
(d) to school lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator insist is the value of the story?

2. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?

3. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?

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

5. Who is assumed to be the narrator of the story?

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