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

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

3. When Moll is well enough to go to Mrs. B's house, how is she surprised?
(a) by its small rooms.
(b) by its value.
(c) by its comfort and cleanliness.
(d) by its seculsion.

4. What hardens Moll's heart to become a professional thief?
(a) hoping to find her highwayman husband.
(b) fear of going hungry.
(c) the joy of having a profession.
(d) the thrill of not getting caught.

5. Why does Moll reproach herself after getting caught with the brocade silk?
(a) she did not scope out the scene well.
(b) she could not make up a good story.
(c) she did not heed the warnings from before.
(d) she stayed too long in the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After her Bath lover deserts her, what does Moll have?

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

4. What happens at the Barnet Stage?

5. What is Moll tempted to do that frightens her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe how Moll and James part.

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

6. What is Moll's concern about having the baby in the rooming house where she is staying?

7. What adventure does Moll have at the gaming house?

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

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

10. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

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