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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. Who does Moll meet at Bath?
2. What can Moll not consider doing?
3. After her son is born, where does the gentleman arrange apartments for Moll?
4. What does Moll say marriages are the consequences of in the country?
5. What does Moll persuade the mistress to allow her to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. As the story opens, why does the writer not reveal her real name?
2. What is Moll's experience with her second husband?
3. What excuse does the older brother give for not marrying Moll right away?
4. What does Moll know about her mother?
5. Under what condition does Moll arrive back in England.
6. Why does Moll put off the younger brother's proposal of marriage?
7. What solution do Moll and her husband-brother come up with to resolve the situation?
8. How does Moll marry for the third time?
9. How does the gentleman react when he learns of Moll's pregnancy?
10. What is Defoe's stated purpose in presenting this book?
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 your opinion of Defoe's literary style in presenting Moll Flanders as though she wrote the book herself. Do you think it is effective? How would it be different written in the third person?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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