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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 a woman caught with goods Moll had stolen?
(a) she tells on Moll.
(b) she kicks a policeman.
(c) she has a heart attack and dies.
(d) she is taken to Newgate.

2. Why does Moll say she continues to steal?
(a) if she stops others will turn her in to the police.
(b) she has nothing better to do.
(c) she is in the power of the devil.
(d) it keeps her from being bored.

3. What does Moll say the passing jade thinks of?
(a) a love of their own.
(b) not the man but the money.
(c) having many babies.
(d) a chance to marry.

4. What happens to the sliver brought to the pawnbroker?
(a) it is sold back to the people it was stolen from.
(b) it is melted down.
(c) it is sold to collectors.
(d) it is smuggled to France.

5. What does Mrs. B do with unwanted children?
(a) pays to have them taken away.
(b) smothers them at birth.
(c) throws them into the river.
(d) sells them to gypsies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. B not abort Moll's pregnancy?

2. What is Moll's initial reaction to her new life of crime?

3. Why does Moll not relate all the adventures of her Lancashire husband?

4. How does Moll begin looking at the banker's house?

5. What does she say he is probably most worried about now?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Moll finally caught red handed?

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

3. Describe how Moll and James part.

4. Where do Moll and James end up after Newgate?

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

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

7. What kind of reputation does Moll earn from the underground, criminal community?

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

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

10. How does Moll escape capture when a former partner in crime gets caught by the police?

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