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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 save Moll?
(a) she buys her way out of prison.
(b) she is sentenced to being transported instead of death.
(c) she manages a great escape from Newgate.
(d) she agrees to go to France and never return to England.

2. What does Moll do to the shopkeeper after she is exonerated by the capture of the real shoplifter?
(a) She makes him get on his knees to apologize.
(b) She demands money as restitution.
(c) She slaps his face.
(d) She takes him to court.

3. What does Moll say a woman is like when she is left desolate?
(a) like a child without parents.
(b) like a ship sinking in the ocean.
(c) like a fish out of water.
(d) like a bag of money dopped on the street.

4. Before they depart for Ireland, what does Moll's new husband ask her?
(a) if she wants a large family.
(b) if she has brought any money with her.
(c) if she will wait for him in West chester.
(d) if she has affairs to finish in London.

5. How long is Moll married to the banker before he dies?
(a) five years.
(b) eighteen weeks.
(c) six months.
(d) one year.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the landlady send for to assist Moll?

3. What causes Moll to become audacious in her thievery?

4. What do Moll and Mrs. B work out?

5. Why does Moll not allow the maid Mrs. B sends to stay overnight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Moll and James part.

3. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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