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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the younger brother want to do?
(a) marry Betty.
(b) sleep in Betty's bed.
(c) kill his brother.
(d) set Betty up in an apartment.

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

4. What happens when Betty Flanders goes to live with another widow?
(a) she meets all kinds of rich, available men.
(b) the widwo dies and leaves her house to Mrs. Flanders.
(c) the widow finds a rich man and marries.
(d) the widow turns her in to the police.

5. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?
(a) more historical references.
(b) more stress on the law.
(c) more graphic detail.
(d) more modest words.

6. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?
(a) by hiding herself.
(b) by being sold by the gypsies.
(c) by running to a policeman.
(d) by finding her mother.

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

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

9. Moving in with a friend, what does Moll come to be called?
(a) pretty whore.
(b) pretty spinster.
(c) pretty widow.
(d) pretty pickpocket.

10. What is Moll's first recollection?
(a) learning how to sew.
(b) leaving Newgate prison.
(c) being hungry on the street.
(d) being among the gypsies.

11. Why does Moll go to the aid of the young woman next door to her?
(a) her beau left her because she checked up on his character.
(b) her beau had left her bacause he had many others.
(c) her beau had left her after she became pregnant.
(d) her beau had left her when she gave him no money.

12. Who does Moll meet at Bath?
(a) a handsome rogue.
(b) an old friend from the Mint.
(c) an other draper.
(d) a gentleman down from London.

13. What type of instruction does the narrator say is included in the story?
(a) how to tell when someone is lying.
(b) how to avoid thieves and pickpockets.
(c) how to steal without getting caught.
(d) how to escakpe from prison.

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

15. What does the new mistress lack that the former one had?
(a) fine clothes.
(b) family.
(c) honesty.
(d) money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mrs. Mayoress say Moll may become a gentlewoman for all they know?

3. What happens with the younger brother?

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

5. What does Moll finally find?

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