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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the sliver brought to the pawnbroker?
(a) it is sold to collectors.
(b) it is smuggled to France.
(c) it is sold back to the people it was stolen from.
(d) it is melted down.

2. What does Moll do to the shopkeeper after she is exonerated by the capture of the real shoplifter?
(a) She makes him get on his knees to apologize.
(b) She demands money as restitution.
(c) She takes him to court.
(d) She slaps his face.

3. What does Moll say is worse than being in want?
(a) being friendless.
(b) being helpless.
(c) being old.
(d) being in prison.

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

5. What effect does Moll's brushes with the law have on her activities?
(a) she takes a year off so that her face will be forgotten.
(b) she becomes overconfident and continues her business.
(c) she becomes truly repentant and stops.
(d) she starts working with a partner.

6. What does Moll say allowed the devil to push her into crime?
(a) the challenge to the police.
(b) the influence of her missing husband.
(c) the plight of poverty.
(d) the thrill of the hunt.

7. Why do people suggest that Moll move out of St. John's Street?
(a) she is obviously pregnant with no husband.
(b) she needs to go to a hsopital.
(c) someone recognises her.
(d) people think she is a whore.

8. What happens when Moll's husband learns she is poor?
(a) he laughs and says it is no important.
(b) he gives her £1500.
(c) he beats her.
(d) he deserts her.

9. What does the banker promise Moll?
(a) to help her triple her money.
(b) not to offer her money to be his mistress.
(c) to pay her well for occasional sex.
(d) not to talk more until he has a divorce.

10. What does Moll say a woman is like when she is left desolate?
(a) like a fish out of water.
(b) like a ship sinking in the ocean.
(c) like a bag of money dopped on the street.
(d) like a child without parents.

11. After moving back with the governess, what work does Mill do?
(a) needle work.
(b) house cleaning.
(c) baby sitting.
(d) teaching school.

12. What does Moll confess to the banker?
(a) that she fell in love with him at the bank.
(b) that she had no romantic ideas about him.
(c) that she had thought he was single.
(d) that she trusted him but that was all.

13. How does the banker say his wife is a whore?
(a) as a victim of incest.
(b) not by necessity but by inclination.
(c) as mentally uncapable of resisting.
(d) as a madwoman obsessed with sex.

14. Who does Moll say put evil ideas into her head?
(a) the devil.
(b) her highwayman husband.
(c) the police.
(d) her governess.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the banker's house like?

2. What do they call Mrs. B in her house?

3. What do Moll and her Lancashire husband discover about each other?

4. When Moll is well enough to go to Mrs. B's house, how is she surprised?

5. Why does Moll not relate all the adventures of her Lancashire husband?

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