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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the gentleman at Bath?

2. What does the narrator say results from any wicked action in the book?

3. What does the younger brother want to do?

4. What shows the other brother's intentions that Moll does not understand?

5. What does Moll want to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moll become closely involved with a wealthy man in Bath?

2. What happens when Moll is only 14-years-old?

3. How does Moll protest the older brother's suggestion?

4. What is the final payoff and the conditions to Moll to release the gentleman to whom she had been mistress?

5. What excuse does the older brother give for not marrying Moll right away?

6. What apology does the editor make about the content of the book?

7. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

8. Why does Moll put off the younger brother's proposal of marriage?

9. What does Moll learn about the Men who visit Bath during the summer season?

10. What does the editor claim about Moll's new life in the American colonies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages detailing three major types of transportation in the novel--horseback, the carriage, and boats and ships. Express your opinion on how such limited means of transportation affected 18th century life. Point out the hardships involved with each type of transportation. Discuss how means of transportation began to evolve in the 19th century because of a need for better ways of getting around.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on child labor. Start with the way it was in Moll's day and note how changes have been made in Europe and America. Discuss the bad effects on exploited children and places in the world where child labor is still a problem.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the stages of going deeper and deeper into a life of crime. Use the example of how Moll began by lying, then graduated into marrying under false pretenses, then became a whore, and finally became a professional thief. Compare that descent into criminality to an addiction to drugs and alcohol.

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