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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. How is the weather during Moll's trip back to England from Virginia?
(a) it is peaceful.
(b) there are several storms.
(c) it rains for the entire trip.
(d) the ship is driven aground on an island.

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

3. What do the ladies of the town do for Moll?
(a) give her money and clothes.
(b) keep her hidden from the police.
(c) send her to school in London.
(d) petition the mayor.

4. Where is Moll born?
(a) in her grandmother's house.
(b) in prison.
(c) in a barn.
(d) in a hospital.

5. How do Moll and the young woman next door get even with the young captain?
(a) by destroying his reputation.
(b) by fooling him into marrying a shrew.
(c) by picketing his house.
(d) by sinking his ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gentleman at Bath give Moll?

2. What does Moll want to become?

3. What is Moll's first recollection?

4. What happens to her draper husband?

5. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What excuse does the older brother give for not marrying Moll right away?

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

3. What apology does the editor make about the content of the book?

4. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

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

6. As a child what does Moll want that amuses the Mayor's wife and her Nurse?

7. How does the novel begin?

8. After some repentance for their sleeping together, what do Moll and the gentleman do?

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

10. How does Moll marry for the third time?

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