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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 finally find?

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

3. What has Moll heard about the gentleman she is considering marriage to?

4. What is Moll's first recollection?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Moll marry for the third time?

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

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

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

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

7. As the story opens, why does the writer not reveal her real name?

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

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

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

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 the slavery of British criminals in the American colonies. Note any differences between those people transported from England and the black slaves who were bought like cattle. Point out how the British criminals could eventually buy their way out of servitude. Use Moll and James as examples of transported criminals able to start a new life in the colonies.

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 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?

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