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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 the younger brother retort to his sister's talk about money?
(a) a beautiful gets money in the form of gifts.
(b) a beautiful maid is often taken by a wealthy friend.
(c) a beautiful maid will sometimes ride a carriage before her mistress.
(d) an ugly lady with money is no prize.

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

3. Where does Moll take up residence after returning from Virginia?
(a) London.
(b) Bristol.
(c) the Mint.
(d) Bath.

4. Why does the mistress come to talk with Moll while she sews a shirt?
(a) because she is always crying.
(b) because she has bad news.
(c) because she has a new family for Moll.
(d) because she is not doing a good job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll help the young woman next door do?

2. How does Moll talk about their next encounter?

3. What does the narrator say about the final scene in the story?

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

5. What does Moll receive at the second home where she is kept?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

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

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

5. How does Moll protest the older brother's suggestion?

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

7. What does the editor claim about Moll's new life in the American colonies?

8. How does Moll marry for the third time?

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

10. What is Moll's experience with her second husband?

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