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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. Why does the landlady not offer the same help that Mrs. B offers?
(a) she is not a midwife.
(b) she lacks education.
(c) she does not have enough room.
(d) she cannot secure the parish.

2. What does Moll learn about her banker?
(a) he has no money himself.
(b) he is a confirmed bachelor.
(c) he has a wife.
(d) he wants a mistress.

3. Who does the governess introduce Moll to who can help her learn the art of thieving?
(a) a professional pickpocket.
(b) a schoolmistress.
(c) a house robber.
(d) a magician.

4. What is the location when Moll is finally caught red handed?
(a) a silversmith's shop.
(b) a drapers.
(c) a private house.
(d) a roadhouse.

5. What is Moll's initial reaction to her new life of crime?
(a) fear of her governess.
(b) fear of Newgate.
(c) fear of getting hooked on crime.
(d) fear of God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Mill in the silversmith's shop?

3. What effect does Moll's brushes with the law have on her activities?

4. Who does Moll meet to help her with her money?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Moll do after the man falls into a drunken sleep?

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

4. Describe how Moll and James part.

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

6. What had Moll's new husband, James, believed about her before they were married?

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

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

9. What event causes Moll to turn to a life of crime?

10. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

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