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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 does she say he is probably most worried about now?
(a) that Moll will find him again.
(b) that his wife will believe his story.
(c) that someone saw what actually happened.
(d) that he might have the pox.

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

3. What does Moll admit to the lady who comes to help her?
(a) that she is not married.
(b) that she has a husband.
(c) that she does not want the child.
(d) that she has a lot of money.

4. How old does she now admit to being?
(a) 39.
(b) 32.
(c) 42.
(d) 29.

5. What does Moll confess to the banker?
(a) that she had no romantic ideas about him.
(b) that she fell in love with him at the bank.
(c) that she trusted him but that was all.
(d) that she had thought he was single.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Moll's first theft?

2. How is Moll swept off her feet by an Irishman?

3. Before they depart for Ireland, what does Moll's new husband ask her?

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

5. Why does Moll reproach herself after getting caught with the brocade silk?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

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

3. Describe how Moll and James part.

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

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

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

7. What does James tell Moll as she departs for London?

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

9. How is the governess able to set Moll up with the baronet after she robbed him in the carriage?

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

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