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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 happens to Mill in the silversmith's shop?
(a) she resists taking anything for fear of getting caught.
(b) she takes a handful of plate just as the owner enters.
(c) she puts some spoons in her pocket and they fall to the floor.
(d) a man sees her enter and comes to accuse her of theft.

2. What is the banker's house like?
(a) large and well furnished.
(b) large but without much furniture.
(c) in need of a woman's touch.
(d) small and comfortable.

3. What is Moll's first theft?
(a) a watch on the belt of an old lady.
(b) money left lying on a counter.
(c) the wallet of an old man asleep on a park bench.
(d) an unwatched parcel in an apothecary shop.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll do to the shopkeeper after she is exonerated by the capture of the real shoplifter?

2. What does Moll admit to the lady who comes to help her?

3. What privilege do Moll and her husband get while anchored at Ireland?

4. Why does Moll put off the banker who now has a divorce?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What assistance does she get from the landlady at the rooming house?

2. Describe how Moll and James part.

3. How does Moll eventually project her guilt onto someone else?

4. How is Moll finally caught red handed?

5. How does Moll's marriage to the banker come to an end?

6. How does the governess try to prepare Moll for hanging?

7. Explain what foils Moll's plan to marry the banker when she returns to London.

8. In Newgate, who is the leader of a rebel gang brought in for trial?

9. What happens to the child after it is born?

10. How does Moll meet the next man she becomes involved with when she is forty-two-years old?

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