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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 the author has to keep his chronology straight.
(d) that vicious readers may turn it to the author's disadvantage.

3. What happens to the gentleman at Bath?
(a) he becomes ill.
(b) he is arrested for theft.
(c) he leaves in the middle of the night.
(d) he is visited by his wife.

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

5. What does Moll say marriages are the consequences of in the country?
(a) religion.
(b) pregnancies.
(c) shotguns.
(d) politics.

6. Why does Mrs. Mayoress come to the school?
(a) to order a new dress.
(b) to have some garments mended.
(c) to look for the little gentlewoman.
(d) to find a new slave.

7. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?
(a) cook.
(b) speak German.
(c) write.
(d) sing.

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

9. What does Moll persuade the mistress to allow her to do?
(a) find a husband.
(b) go to school.
(c) run away.
(d) live in her house.

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

11. When does Moll realize the older brother only wants her as a mistress?
(a) when he tells her he is engaged to another lady.
(b) when he stops talking about love and marriage.
(c) when he gives her £1000 to leave town..
(d) when he gives her 100 guineas and a promise for that much each year.

12. What does the younger brother retort to his sister's talk about money?
(a) a beautiful maid is often taken by a wealthy friend.
(b) a beautiful gets money in the form of gifts.
(c) a beautiful maid will sometimes ride a carriage before her mistress.
(d) an ugly lady with money is no prize.

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

14. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?
(a) his mother.
(b) the parish priest.
(c) the older brother.
(d) his sisters.

15. What problem does Moll have getting the money her old nurse had saved for her?
(a) after the nurse dies, her daughter does not want to give it.
(b) the magistrates want reembursement for their expenses.
(c) the nurse left no written instructions about the money.
(d) Moll cannot leave the house where she works and lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?

2. What does Moll say that women of her time had lost?

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

4. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?

5. How does the captain's lady help repay Moll for her services?

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