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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Moll take up residence after returning from Virginia?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Bath.
(c) the Mint.
(d) London.

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

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

5. How does the landlady get the gentleman to offer money to Moll?
(a) by asking him for money to give to Moll.
(b) by raising his rent at her house.
(c) by telling a lie about her lost shpment.
(d) by saying that Moll doubts that he has money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moll born?

2. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?

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

4. How is the weather during Moll's trip back to England from Virginia?

5. When Moll's resolution breaks and she gives him permission to make love to her, how does she classify herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the story opens, why does the writer not reveal her real name?

2. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

3. How does Moll marry for the third time?

4. How does the editor compare the novel to dramatic plays of the day?

5. What solution do Moll and her husband-brother come up with to resolve the situation?

6. How does Moll become closely involved with a wealthy man in Bath?

7. What is the purpose of the preface to Moll Flanders?

8. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

9. What is Defoe's stated purpose in presenting this book?

10. Why does Moll put off the younger brother's proposal of marriage?

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