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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. How does Moll get away from the gypsies?

2. How does Moll compare herself to the gentleman at Bath?

3. What does the landlady charge Moll for lodging during the winter at Bath?

4. What does Mrs. Betty (aka Moll) know that makes her vain?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel begin?

2. After some repentance for their sleeping together, what do Moll and the gentleman do?

3. As the story opens, why does the writer not reveal her real name?

4. What is Defoe's stated purpose in presenting this book?

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

6. To Moll's chagrin, what does the older brother insist that she do?

7. What happens to Moll's heart when the older brother takes an interest in her?

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

9. Under what condition does Moll arrive back in England.

10. What is the purpose of the preface to Moll Flanders?

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 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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on how well you think the characters are drawn in MOLL FLANDERS. In your analysis, mention whether you know how they looked, what kind of clothes they wore, how they thought and talked, and whether you picture them as real characters.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the use of irony in MOLL FLANDERS. Use the example of Moll and James each thinking the other was rich before they married and finding out that Moll really was a woman of fortune years later when they came to America. Express your opinion about how such ironic twists in a plot tend to make a story more interesting. Comment on whether you think irony happens in real life and give at least one example.

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