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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. Why does Moll go to the aid of the young woman next door to her?

3. How does Moll propose to make her own living?

4. What does the narrator insist that the characters must eventually become?

5. What does Moll say marriages are the consequences of in the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who takes Moll in after the death of the Nurse?

2. How does Moll protest the older brother's suggestion?

3. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

4. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

5. What solution do Moll and her husband-brother come up with to resolve the situation?

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

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

8. What does Moll learn about the Men who visit Bath during the summer season?

9. As a child what does Moll want that amuses the Mayor's wife and her Nurse?

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

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 literary language of the 18th century. Use examples in the novel to demonstrate the formality of written language and vocabulary that is not used in the same way today. State you opinion about the degree of difficulty in understanding the story that language presents in MOLL FLANDERS.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages the disparity between the rich and the poor in 18th century England and the colonies. Discuss to what extent that disparity is directly related to feudalism and how it affected the history of the British colonies in America.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the value of goods that Moll stole as opposed to their value today. Many of Moll's thefts involved fabrics such as silk. Another thing was plate (items made of silver). Explain what that tells about the value of such items in the 18th century. Discuss how these are not the things usually taken in robberies today.

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