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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Moll's resolution breaks and she gives him permission to make love to her, how does she classify herself?
(a) as a whore.
(b) as a fiancée.
(c) as a defiled woman.
(d) as an innocent.

2. What does Moll receive at the second home where she is kept?
(a) education.
(b) fire new garments.
(c) £100 a month.
(d) hard labor.

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

4. What does the narrator insist is the value of the story?
(a) that it opens up a new kind of literature.
(b) that something just or religious may be learned.
(c) that it will put the reader to sleep.
(d) that it will teach child rearing to new parents.

5. What causes Moll not to go to the older brother's wedding?
(a) she has to look after her ten children.
(b) she is not invited to the wedding.
(c) she is eight months pregnant.
(d) seeing another woman marry the man she loves.

6. How does the landlady help out when Moll becomes pregnant?
(a) arranging a family to adopt the child.
(b) vouches that Moll is married to a worthy gentleman.
(c) arranging an abortion.
(d) bribing the parish officials.

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

8. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?
(a) an unhappy end.
(b) an argument for clean living.
(c) a lesson for the readers.
(d) a means to get away.

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

10. Why does the narrator say that the ugly and wicked part of a person's life must be presented?
(a) to warn people about living such a life.
(b) to show the beauty of penitence may be appreciated.
(c) to make the story more interesting to readers.
(d) to show the reasons penitence is needed.

11. What does Moll help the young woman next door do?
(a) get a job as a governess.
(b) find a new man.
(c) learn how to steal.
(d) get even with the unfair beau.

12. What does Moll suspect about her landlady and the gentleman?
(a) that the landlady and he are having an affair.
(b) that the landlady is being bribed by the gentleman.
(c) that the landlady does not know what is going on.
(d) that the landlady is encouraging him to notice Moll.

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

14. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?
(a) hardened criminals.
(b) real people.
(c) penitent.
(d) destroyed.

15. What does Moll finally find?
(a) a tradesman who is handsome but poor.
(b) a tradesman who is crude but rich.
(c) a gentleman tradesman.
(d) a titled gentleman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shows the other brother's intentions that Moll does not understand?

2. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?

3. What is Moll's first recollection?

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

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

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