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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moll say that women of her time had lost?
(a) the right to become wives.
(b) the right to say No.
(c) the right to stay single.
(d) the right to forego having children.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator say about Moll's being penitent?
(a) she does not know the meaning of the word.
(b) she never thinks she has done wrong.
(c) she pretends to be.
(d) she is heartily sorry for her sins.

8. What happens to her draper husband?
(a) he escapes jail and goes to France.
(b) he escapes and goes to America.
(c) he is hanged in Newgate Prison.
(d) he is sent in servictude to Australia.

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

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

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

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

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

14. At what age do the magistrates declare that Moll should go into service?
(a) age six.
(b) age eight.
(c) age twelve.
(d) age ten.

15. What shows the other brother's intentions that Moll does not understand?
(a) he kisses her and runs away.
(b) he takes her out of the house.
(c) he proposes marriage.
(d) he gives her money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landlady get the gentleman to offer money to Moll?

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

3. Why does the narrator say it is difficult to have a private biography taken seriously?

4. How does Moll compare herself to the gentleman at Bath?

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

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