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

2. What does Moll say about her delivery?
(a) it was expert and better than a mother's help.
(b) it nearly kills her.
(c) she learns she has twin girls.
(d) the baby is still born.

3. What happens when Moll's husband learns she is poor?
(a) he beats her.
(b) he laughs and says it is no important.
(c) he deserts her.
(d) he gives her £1500.

4. What is Moll tempted to do that frightens her?
(a) she is tempted to look for more children to rob.
(b) she is tempted to turn herself in.
(c) she is tempted to steal the girl.
(d) she is tempted to murder the girl.

5. What does the banker promise Moll?
(a) not to offer her money to be his mistress.
(b) to help her triple her money.
(c) not to talk more until he has a divorce.
(d) to pay her well for occasional sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Moll's prayers?

2. What happens to the sliver brought to the pawnbroker?

3. What happens to Moll in her widow's dress outside a shop?

4. How does Mill say she came out of the charge of robbing the silversmith?

5. What does Moll say is worse than being in want?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Moll not make a play for the banker?

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

3. Why is Moll so popular up north?

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

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

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

7. What passes through Moll's head as she marries the banker?

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

9. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

10. How is Moll finally caught red handed?

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