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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. Why does Moll reproach herself after getting caught with the brocade silk?
(a) she did not scope out the scene well.
(b) she did not heed the warnings from before.
(c) she could not make up a good story.
(d) she stayed too long in the house.

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

3. What does Moll learn about her banker?
(a) he wants a mistress.
(b) he has a wife.
(c) he has no money himself.
(d) he is a confirmed bachelor.

4. How does the banker say his wife is a whore?
(a) as a madwoman obsessed with sex.
(b) as a victim of incest.
(c) as mentally uncapable of resisting.
(d) not by necessity but by inclination.

5. What do Moll and her Lancashire husband discover about each other?
(a) they no longer love each other.
(b) they know the same people.
(c) they both have money.
(d) they are both broke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll fear about her current landlady who brings Mrs. B?

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

3. Who does the governess introduce Moll to who can help her learn the art of thieving?

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

5. Who does Moll meet to help her with her money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Moll so popular up north?

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

3. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

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

5. In Newgate, who is the leader of a rebel gang brought in for trial?

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

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

8. What event causes Moll to turn to a life of crime?

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

10. Describe how Moll and James part.

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