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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 the landlady get the gentleman to offer money to Moll?

2. What does Moll say that women of her time had lost?

3. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?

4. When Moll's resolution breaks and she gives him permission to make love to her, how does she classify herself?

5. What does the narrator say is the value of hard work as a convict?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Moll's experience with her second husband?

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

4. How does the editor compare the novel to dramatic plays of the day?

5. What is the complication that arises in the new family where Moll lives?

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

7. What are the stories her mother-in-law tells that eventually reveal she was herself transported from Newgate prison to America?

8. How does the gentleman react when he learns of Moll's pregnancy?

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

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

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 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 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 comparing MOLL FLANDERS to the novel, TOM JONES by Henry fielding. There is no need to read the entire novel. Simply point out similarities in characters, behaviors, use of language, point of view of the authors, and attempts to portray the stories as real histories.

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