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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 250-271:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the governess to reduce her fortune?
(a) she has spent time in Newgate.
(b) she is charged with stealing a child.
(c) she is disowned by the parish.
(d) she has a long illness.

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

3. Before they depart for Ireland, what does Moll's new husband ask her?
(a) if she will wait for him in West chester.
(b) if she has affairs to finish in London.
(c) if she wants a large family.
(d) if she has brought any money with her.

4. What does Mrs. B do with unwanted children?
(a) smothers them at birth.
(b) throws them into the river.
(c) pays to have them taken away.
(d) sells them to gypsies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the problem is with writing such a story of three decades of crime?

2. Knowing she cannot be the gentleman's wife, what does Moll do?

3. What does the narrator admit about the text?

4. When does Moll realize the older brother only wants her as a mistress?

5. How much does Mrs. B say Moll's lying in will cost?

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