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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 does the elder brother begin his chase of Moll?
(a) slipping into her room at night.
(b) talking about her to his sisters.
(c) flirting with her in front of his mother.
(d) buying her expensive gifts.

2. 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.

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

4. Who presses Betty to marry the younger brother?
(a) his sisters.
(b) his mother.
(c) the older brother.
(d) the parish priest.

5. What is the condition under which Moll goes to a new house?
(a) staying away from the sons.
(b) a two-week trial period.
(c) an agreement to remain unseen.
(d) making dresses for the daughters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?

3. What does the new mistress lack that the former one had?

4. What does the younger brother retort to his sister's talk about money?

5. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

2. Under what condition does Moll arrive back in England.

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

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

5. What is Defoe's stated purpose in presenting this book?

6. How does the gentleman react when he learns of Moll's pregnancy?

7. What does Moll know about her mother?

8. To Moll's chagrin, what does the older brother insist that she do?

9. How does the novel begin?

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

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