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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 Mrs. B give to the parish officials?
(a) information on the missing husbands.
(b) security that the women who come to her are married.
(c) weekly donations of food.
(d) money to keep them quiet.

2. What causes Moll to become audacious in her thievery?
(a) desperation over lack of money.
(b) the need to be the best at what she does.
(c) doing it a long time without being caught.
(d) gaining a reputation among criminals.

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

4. After her Bath lover deserts her, what does Moll have?
(a) above £450 and her possessions.
(b) her apartment for one more month.
(c) bills in excess of £450.
(d) a sick baby and no money.

5. What happens at the Barnet Stage?
(a) Moll goes to Glasgow.
(b) Moll fakes an accident and demands compensation.
(c) Moll takes a woman's watch from her belt.
(d) Moll steals a bundle from a girl with a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Moll's prayers?

2. Who does Moll get to visit in Newgate?

3. How does the governess say the baronet explained his condition to his wife?

4. What do they call Mrs. B in her house?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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