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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 does Moll learn about her banker?

2. How much does Mrs. B say Moll's lying in will cost?

3. Why does Moll cease to fear witnesses against her?

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

5. Why does the landlady not offer the same help that Mrs. B offers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moll turn her stolen goods into cash?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

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

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 on how poverty sometimes leads to crime. Use the situation in mid 18th century England as a starting point and then make your essay more general. Discuss who is really at fault when the poor resort to stealing.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages the position of women in 18th century England and in the colonies. Define the limitations placed on women, their responsibility regarding having children, their lack of rights when a marriage or relationship breaks up, the kind of labor they are limited to doing and the pay scale they are offered.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the subject of penitence. Point out what real penitence is. Discuss how Moll's penitence looks less like sorrow for her sins and more like sorrow that she was caught. Contrast her with the governess who seems to be genuinely sorry for her past life at the end of the novel.

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