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

2. What causes Moll not to go to the older brother's wedding?
(a) she is not invited to the wedding.
(b) seeing another woman marry the man she loves.
(c) she has to look after her ten children.
(d) she is eight months pregnant.

3. What spared Moll's mother's life when she was condemned to die?
(a) she was pregnant with Moll.
(b) she escaped and fled to virginia.
(c) she turned state's evidence.
(d) she became the mistress of the warden.

4. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?
(a) she wears clothes well.
(b) she had longer hair than most girls.
(c) she has superior intelligence.
(d) she is a great beauty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moll born?

2. What does the narrator say has been left out of the story?

3. After her son is born, where does the gentleman arrange apartments for Moll?

4. What does the sister tell her brother now recommends a woman to a gentleman?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moll know about her mother?

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

3. What is the complication that arises in the new family where Moll lives?

4. What is the final payoff and the conditions to Moll to release the gentleman to whom she had been mistress?

5. What happens when Moll is only 14-years-old?

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

7. Who takes Moll in after the death of the Nurse?

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

9. What are the stories her mother-in-law tells that eventually reveal she was herself transported from Newgate prison to America?

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

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