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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 Mill learn about her cargo from Virginia when she reaches London?

2. How is the weather during Moll's trip back to England from Virginia?

3. What alteration does the narrator say has been made to the story?

4. Who does the young lady get to start the rumor that Moll is rich?

5. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens when Moll is only 14-years-old?

9. What is Moll's life like at first in Virginia?

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

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 expressing your opinion about the importance of MOLL FLANDERS as an example of 18th century fiction and whether it had an effect on later writers. Is there a departure from the norm with this novel that led eventually to books by writers such as Henry James? Discuss whether earlier works of fiction have an influence over works that follow in later years.

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 self-justification. Start with Moll and show how she justified everything she did, excusing herself on the grounds of poverty. From the example, discuss how people tend to make allowances for themselves when they would condemn other people for doing the same things.

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