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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 steal from a child?

2. How does the governess get money from the baronet?

3. What hardens Moll's heart to become a professional thief?

4. What happens to Mill in the silversmith's shop?

5. What does Moll say the passing jade thinks of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Moll finally caught red handed?

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

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

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

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

6. What passes through Moll's head as she marries the banker?

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

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

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

10. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

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 the tastes of a majority of society at any given time affect the way writers tell their tales. Begin with the profuse apology of Defoe in the Preface that the story contains lewd behavior that has been edited and his insistence that the story is presented for its moral lesson. Give your opinion as to whether Defoe is writing tongue in cheek to satisfy the criticism he believes the novel will incur. Give examples as to how such circumspection has changed over the centuries.

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 Why I Would Not Like to Live in 18th Century England. Include in your essay the odds against being born into wealth or nobility, the modern conveniences that were not even dreamed of in that time, and the injustices against women and children.

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